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Complementary and alternative medicine Friday Woo Medicine Quackery

Your Friday Dose of Woo: A little Thanksgiving bonus woo to help you melt away the pounds

For the holidays, I thought I’d include a brief little bit of woo that seems not quite extensive enough for a full treatment in Your Friday Dose of Woo but is nonetheless a tasty woo morsel for your edification that fits in with the usual Thanksgiving theme of overindulgence in various foods and the deleterious […]

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Medicine

Thanksgiving carnivalia

Here’s some reading to keep you entertained while the Respectfully Insolent gang loads up on turkey: 1. Grand Rounds Vol. 3, No. 9 (albeit a couple of days late) 2. Tangled Bank #67: Giving Thanks for Science 3. The Carnival of Bad History No. 11

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Blogging Medicine

Dr. DB needs to be hit hard

So hit him. Hit him hard. He’s 40,000 hits away from 1,000,000 visits. Help get him over the top. Given that I’m starting to get in that range (866,000 hits as of this morning), here’s hoping someone will help me out in around two or three months, which is when I estimate that I’ll be […]

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Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

RNA therapy for autism?

Fellow ScienceBlogger Alex Palazzo has discovered autism quackery. I’m hurt. I’m hurt because apparently Alex doesn’t read my blog. (Just kidding; I don’t read every ScienceBlog, either, although I do read many of them and peruse the Last 24 Hours Feed regularly for topics of interest.) If he did, he’d know that simply giving useless […]

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Medicine

The 48th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle: Last Will and Testament

This time around for 48th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle, a skeptic by the ‘nym of decorabilia presents his Last Will and Testament to the Circle, and bequeaths his worldly possessions to his fellow skeptics: I am old and tired, my son. I feel the creeping chill of death in these creaking bones. I smell […]