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Bioethics Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Politics Quackery

They don’t call it “cheat-lation” for nothing

Regular readers here are probably most familiar with the so-called “complementary and alternative medicine” therapy known as chelation therapy in the context of its use, or, more specifically, its misuse in “treating” autistic children, a misuse that has resulted in at least one death, a five-year-old autistic boy named Abubakar Tariq Nadama. However, before the […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Politics

Bill Clinton brings the stupid home on autism

And I thought, whatever his other faults and whatever my disagreements with his politics,, that Bill Clinton was incredibly smart. Apparently I was wrong: “You do not want to bring your children into the world where we go on with the number of children who are born with autism tripling every 20 years, and nobody […]

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History Humor Politics Sports World War II

Better late than never: Some serious ignorance of history on display

The ignorance and stupidity, they burn: Why, yes, actually, we did “allow” Nazi Germany to host the Olympics back in 1936. Hitler even presided over some of the ceremonies. The sign is so wrong that at first I wondered whether it was a Photoshop job, but apparently it’s legit. I realize this photo is from […]

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Anti-Semitism History Humor Politics

Tony Zirkle, You Are Dumb…

…or so sayeth, well…YOU ARE DUMB. Bryan may be a little late in piling on, but better late than never. Zirkle, as you may recall, was the hapless candidate for the Republican nomination to run for a Congressional seat in northwest Indiana who accepted an invitation to speak at a celebration of Hitler’s 119th birthday […]

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Spell-checking is a good thing

Too bad this woman forgot a cardinal rule about making signs boosting English as the official language of the U.S.: Sorry, I saw this picture and just couldn’t resist… Hat tip, though, to Orcinus, who reminded me of this other example of a protester who could use a little remedial English: