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Cancer Medicine Politics Science

Mark takes on the smoking cranks

The other day, in the course of posting about some deceptive quote-mining by someone who doesn’t accept the science indicating that secondhand smoke is a health danger, I referenced the uber-crank of crank websites, Forces.org, a website so cranky that it denies not just health dangers from secondhand smoke, but rather that even smoking causes […]

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Cancer Evolution Medicine Science

I thought only Dr. Egnor wrote tripe like this about evolution and medicine

I really shouldn’t do it. I really shouldn’t go perusing the blog of the house organ of the Discovery Institute’s propaganda arm, Evolution News & Views, as I did yesterday. I’m not as young as I used to be, have a family history of cardiovascular disease, and am not in the greatest of shape. Reading […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Medicine

Andrew Wakefield’s concern for autistic children

Here’s a video in which Andrew Wakefield, who, now that he’s facing charges for research improprieties and failure to disclose conflicts of interest, now claims that he’s fighting “for the children,” shows his concern for the children whose blood he drew: Yes, while recounting how at a party he drew blood from children for £5 […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Dr. RW piles on Mike Adams

After Mark and I took apart Mike Adams’ misinformation- and logical fallacy-filled rant of idiocy against conventional medicine, it appeared that there was still some left to take on. Fortunately, Dr. RW took up the slack. Because when the woo-meister is as idiotic as Mike Adams, too much debunking is never enough.

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Entertainment/culture Music Pareidolia Skepticism/critical thinking

The King of Pareidolia (and rock ‘n’ roll)

This time, it’s from Colorado, and it’s the King: Rock collector LaDell Alexander, 60, has found a stone she swears has the face of the rock king Elvis Presley on it and has taken it home and plans to sell it on eBay in August, near the 30th anniversary of his death. Alexander said “people […]