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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Politics

Senator Obama’s health plan more likely to recover alternative medicine?

Here’s a new one on me: Senator Obama’s support for preventative medical care is another little noted but important key point of difference with Senator McCain that emerged from the debate. Under Obama it is far more likely that insurance plans will cover alternative medicine, including acupuncture, therapy, and government approved herbs and vitamins. This […]

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Humor Politics

Nooo! They got Bullwinkle!

The bastards…

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Humor Politics

More lazy weekend video

I’m still buried working on next week’s talk and my part of the center grant. Fortunately, Saturday Night Live provides some temporary entertainment until I can get out from under the pile. Once again Tina Fey nails it, especially the “maverick” part. While watching the debate last week, by the end I thought I was […]

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Politics

If you want to know the real cause of the subprime mortgage mess…

Given that über-quackery booster Mike Adams decided to compare “Western medicine” to the subprime mortgage mess, I wondered what the real cause of this financial meltdown was. Leave it to our friends in the right wing blogosphere and media to find the real culprit: The Community Reinvestment Act. That’s right… …it’s all the poor people’s […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Medicine Politics Quackery

You knew it had to happen: A quack likens “Western medicine” to the subprime mortgage mess

After having posted about Jenny McCarthy, my brain hurt so much from the neuron-apoptosing idiocy that she always delivers that I decided I needed to move on to something that wouldn’t assault my reason and quite so much. So I headed on over to that uber-repository of quackery and paranoid conspiracy theories, Mike Adam’s Natural […]