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Grand Rounds

Grand Rounds, vol. 2., no 52 has been posted at Tundra Medicine Dreams. Enjoy!

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Politics Quackery

Anti-vaccination activist running for governor of the state of Colorado?

Unfortunately for them, folks in Colorado have a hard core anti-vaxer named Dawn Winkler running for governor on the Libertarian ticket. I’m hoping for their sakes that, as a third party candidate, that she has virtually no chance of winning. Check out some of her rhetoric posted on Whale.to seven years ago in response to […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Politics

Starchild Abraham Cherrix doing well?

Ensconced at a conference center in North Carolina near Abel‘s and Bora‘s home turf since Saturday, I appear to have missed an update on the story of Starchild Abraham Cherrix. As you may recall, he is a 16 year old who fought for the right to pursue “alternative” therapy over evidence-based medicine to treat his […]

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Medicine Politics

More weekend YouTube: Some rather pointless stem cell propaganda

I’m still kind of scratching my head over this one. It’s preaching to the converted and is not particularly illuminating. Surely they could have come up with something better. (Via the bioethics web log.)

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Humor Medicine Surgery

Saturday YouTube: Support Organ Donation

This reminds me of what the result might be were Monty Python to do a public service announcement encouraging organ donation, except Monty Python would have done it in drag rather than using a real female: