RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE

"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, and pseudoscience (and anything else that interests him).

Category: Quackery

Complementary and alternative medicine Holocaust denial Medicine Quackery

An unexpected analogy

While I am on vacation, I’m reprinting a number of “Classic Insolence” posts to keep the blog active while I’m gone. (It also has the salutory effect of allowing me to move some of my favorite posts from the old blog over to the new blog, and I’m guessing that quite a few of my […]

Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Orac applies some Respectful Insolenceâ¢ to a comment spammer

Post author By Orac
Post date December 27, 2006
3 Comments on Orac applies some Respectful Insolenceâ¢ to a comment spammer

While I am on vacation, I’m reprinting a number of “Classic Insolence” posts to keep the blog active while I’m gone. (It also has the salutory effect of allowing me to move some of my favorite posts from the old blog over to the new blog, and I’m guessing that quite a few of my […]

Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

A particularly egregious misrepresentation of a study

Post author By Orac
Post date December 27, 2006
8 Comments on A particularly egregious misrepresentation of a study

While I am on vacation, I’m reprinting a number of “Classic Insolence” posts to keep the blog active while I’m gone. (It also has the salutory effect of allowing me to move some of my favorite posts from the old blog over to the new blog, and I’m guessing that quite a few of my […]

Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery Science Skepticism/critical thinking

What is “ethnoscience”?

While I am on vacation, I’m reprinting a number of “Classic Insolence” posts to keep the blog active while I’m gone. (It also has the salutory effect of allowing me to move some of my favorite posts from the old blog over to the new blog, and I’m guessing that quite a few of my […]

Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

If you think it’s just about mercury in vaccines, you’re wrong

Post author By Orac
Post date December 26, 2006
6 Comments on If you think it’s just about mercury in vaccines, you’re wrong

While I am on vacation, I’m reprinting a number of “Classic Insolence” posts to keep the blog active while I’m gone. (It also has the salutory effect of allowing me to move some of my favorite posts from the old blog over to the new blog, and I’m guessing that quite a few of my […]