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Medicine Science Skepticism/critical thinking

The Enemies of Reason, part 2: The Irrational Health Service (with a review)

Thanks to Blake, I now have The Enemies of Reason, Part 2: My review of this episode is below the fold. I managed to BitTorrent the episode and watch it on my laptop on my flight back from Chicago last night. If you don’t want to be influenced by my opinion before watching, watch the […]

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Humor News of the Weird

Best. Headline. Ever.

This has nothing to do with science, but this has to be the best headline ever: British dwarf’s penis gets stuck to hoover Original story here. Even better, the dwarf in question goes by the stage name Captain Dan the Demon Dwarf. I don’t think there’s anything to add here.

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Medicine Surgery

Relieving a pain in the posterior

I’ve been meaning to mention this post by Sid Schwab of Surgeonsblog for a while now. It’s a wonderful example of how nothing heals like surgical steel in even the most humble-seeming conditions. In this case, he’s talking about anal fissures, a condition that makes defecation very painful. It turns out that, for cases that […]

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Anti-Semitism History Holocaust Holocaust denial

Abe Foxman: Genocide denier?

My regular readers here know to what lengths I go to combat Holocaust denial on the Internet. It’s a fairly regular topic on this blog, as is rebutting the lies Holocaust deniers routinely spout. Not surprisingly, Holocaust deniers like to try to portray me as either Jewish or somehow in the thrall of the ADL, […]

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Humor Medicine

Placebo television

1-899-SCAMDOC? Want an double decker MRSAwich–with extra MRSA? Or how about prolotherapy? (But don’t forget the pixie dust!) (Via Kevin, MD.)