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Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

The ghoul returns again to feast on the flesh of celebrities

I waited. I knew it was coming. It had to. History was on my side. My quarry was nutty, but in a way exceedingly predictable. it wasn’t so much that I knew exactly what he would do. He wasn’t predictable in that way. It was that I knew he would do something crazy. Actually, on […]

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Taking the naturopathic option

If you had the choice between the “standard” option for insurance or the naturopathic option, which would you choose? (Click to see the full cartoon; it’s a bit old. But I hadn’t seen it before; so it’s new to me.) Of course, this is the very reason alt-med boosters don’t want anyone to have to […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine History Medicine Quackery

Mike Adams brings home the crazy over, of all things, the Caduceus

I have a love-hate relationship with Mike Adams. Mike Adams, regular readers of this blog, is the “intellectual force” between that repository of quackery and sheer lunacy, NaturalNews.com. I hate him because he is a vile human being who cheerfully promotes bogus therapies on his website. (You know, I think we skeptics should borrow Simon […]

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Farrah Fawcett: Dead of cancer at age 62

Unfortunately, I saw this coming, although I had thought that it might be a few more months. Farrah Fawcett has lost her three year battle with anal cancer: Farrah Fawcett, an actress and television star whose good looks and signature flowing hairstyle influenced a generation of women and bewitched a generation of men, beginning with […]

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Update: Daniel Hauser must continue chemotherapy

The other day, I came across an update on the Daniel Hauser saga. Specifically, I commented about how he is not only undergoing the chemotherapy ordered by his doctors. As you may recall, Hauser is a 13-year-old boy who, after being diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma and undergoing one round of chemotherapy, refused to undergo any […]