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Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery Surgery

How can so much stupidity about medicine be packed into one article?

Mike Adams is an idiot. There, I said it. Adams runs the NewsTarget website, a repository for all things “alternative” medicine. In it, he rails against “conventional” medicine as utterly useless and touts all manner of woo as the “cure” for a variety of diseases. I generally ignore his website these days because I fear […]

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Clinical trials Medicine Politics Skepticism/critical thinking

Tagged to “fix” the NIH

It looks as though I’ve been tagged by Drug Monkey, who apparently thinks that I might have something worth saying about the state of the NIH and its peer review system, about which the NIH is presently soliciting comments, as pointed out to me by Medical Writing, Editing, & Grantsmanship. Why Drugmonkey might think this […]

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Medicine Politics Quackery Religion

Update on the Tripoli 6

About a month and a half ago, I posted an update to the story of the plight of a group of medical professionals who have come to be known as the “Tripoli 6” or the “Benghazi 6.” These are six foreign medical workers who were falsely accused by Libyan authorities intentionally infecting over 400 children […]

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Medicine

Lest I forget….

…Tara over at Aetiology is hosting Grand Rounds. What are you waiting for?

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Antivaccine nonsense Evolution Intelligent design/creationism Medicine Pseudoscience Science Skepticism/critical thinking Surgery

“Unprofessional”? Moi? Dr. Egnor attacks over marketing Darwinism

I’m devastated. Truly and totally devastated emotionally and intellectually. Indeed, I don’t know how I’ll ever be able to recover, how I’ll ever be able to live down the shame and go on with my career. What could bring me to this point, you ask? I’ll tell you. Everybody’s favorite creationist neurosurgeon and dualist Dr.Michael […]