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Humor Medicine

Are you sexually active?

It’s a simple question that we as medical professionals often have to ask, but one that is a minefield when it comes to answers. To take a cue from our former President, I suppose it depends on what the meaning of the word “active” is.

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Cancer Clinical trials Medicine Science Surgery

Bloviations and pontifications on the state of cancer research, part 1 (of 2)

Readers who don’t like me might think that the title of this post refers to what I am about to write. I know, the title perfectly encapsulates the verbose style that is my stock and trade. In reality, though, it’s referring to a couple of articles floating around the blogosphere of which I’ve become aware […]

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EneMan Humor Medicine

What’s he got that I haven’t? (Part 2)

Our intrepid mascot has been revealing sides of himself this year of which I had previously been unaware. After all, who knew he was so into art that he’d pose nude without embarrassment? Or that he was a Shakespearean actor? Or that he has a way with the ladies? Maybe it’s because he’s so suave […]

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

Your Friday Dose of Woo: The shifting sands of anti-entropic woo

Everybody (well, mostly everybody) learns in science and physics class the Three Laws of Thermodynamics: Energy cannot be created or destroyed, meaning that the increase in the internal energy of a thermodynamic system is equal to the amount of heat energy added to the system minus the work done by the system on the surroundings. […]

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Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Generation Rescue: Punk’d!

You may remember how, almost in passing as part of a longer post, I mentioned how much cranks can’t stand critics of theirs who write under a pseudonym and try to out them at every opportunity. Indeed, one of the biggest cranks of all, J.B. Handley, the man whose mantra used to be that autism […]