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Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Politics Quackery

Age of Autism’s “Reporter of the Year” strikes (out) again

I can only guess that being voted Age of Autism’s “Reporter of the Year” went to David Kirby’s head. Of course, the only real competition was Dan Olmsted, who apparently couldn’t find the Clinic for Special Children in Amish country (or, more likely, didn’t bother to look for it) yet bravely claims there are no […]

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Politics

Happy New Years

Happy New Year, everyone! Here’s hoping that 2009 is better than 2008 was, which, quite frankly (at least for me) sucked big time. In any case, I’m taking the day off. In the meantime, enjoy Jib Jab’s 2008 Year in Review: Not Jib Jab’s best, but still amusing enough. Perhaps it’s appropriate for the year […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Politics Quackery

If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em: Crash this poll

I know, I know, I’ve criticized P.Z. Myer’s poll-crashing proclivities as being childish and pointless. However, so few people seem to agree with my take on it that I’m wondering whether, if I can’t beat ’em I should join ’em. So let’s try it out. On the Obama Transition Team website, Generation Rescue has put […]

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Humor Politics

What really happened in Iraq the other day…

I had always suspected that this is what was really going on: Actually, it would have been a lot more fun if this had been what really happened.

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Politics Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Taking woo in the military to a whole new level: Deploying acupuncturists to Iraq

Several months ago, I wrote a post about the experimentation with acupuncture by an Air Force physician, Col. Robert Niemtzow. In the post, I started with an admittedly exaggerated vignette–a story, if you will–of a soldier whose leg was shredded by a mortar in battle. When the medic came to treat his wounds and get […]