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Cancer Medicine Surgery

An “expose” full of sound and fury, signifying nothing

I debated for a while about whether or not I wanted to comment on this one. The reason, of course, is that, to some extent, I’ve commented on a similar article before. Also, given the utter contempt that the blogger who posted this series holds me in and his delusion that I am somehow “obsessed” […]

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Medicine Science Surgery

Science tattoos vs. anatomy tattoos

Science tattoos have been all the rage lately. Even though I’m a scientist, I’m also a surgeon; so naturally I was wondering if there was anything that I’d like to see too. There is. Over at Street Anatomy, there’s a great collection of anatomy tattoos. Anyone who has any surgery-related tattoos, send a picture of […]

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Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

I thought they were just kidding…

This is disturbing. Yesterday, I did a rather light-hearted edition of Your Friday Dose of Woo about “ionic foot detoxification.” A reader pointed out that in a story in which Randi had also discussed this woo, there was a comment along the lines of “I think autistic children should really do this.” How prophetic! Sadly, […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Friday Woo Medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Your Friday Dose of Woo: A soothing footbath of woo

After over a year of doing Your Friday Dose of Woo, I can’t believe I’ve never come across this one before. Sometimes there’s a bit of woo that comes my way that’s so off the wall, so unexpected, the claims for which are so unrelated to reality that it startles even me. Moreover, unlike truly […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Spot the flaw in the argument in this pitch…

Somehow, I don’t know how, I managed to wind up on the mailing list of über-woomeister Dr. Joseph Mercola, who’s almost as bad as Mike Adams, only less blatantly crazy in pushing conspiracy theories. Yesterday, I received this pitch by e-mail: