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Pseudoscience Skepticism/critical thinking

The perpetuation of bad arguments

I thought I’d take a bit of a break for a change of pace. At the risk of falling flat on my face, I’m going to wander far afield from the usual medical and biological topics of this blog into an area that I rarely say much about. The reason is an incident that happened […]

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Medicine

Lest I forget….

…Tara over at Aetiology is hosting Grand Rounds. What are you waiting for?

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Antivaccine nonsense Evolution Intelligent design/creationism Medicine Pseudoscience Science Skepticism/critical thinking Surgery

“Unprofessional”? Moi? Dr. Egnor attacks over marketing Darwinism

I’m devastated. Truly and totally devastated emotionally and intellectually. Indeed, I don’t know how I’ll ever be able to recover, how I’ll ever be able to live down the shame and go on with my career. What could bring me to this point, you ask? I’ll tell you. Everybody’s favorite creationist neurosurgeon and dualist Dr.Michael […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Bioethics Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

If you can’t get justice one way, maybe justice will come another way

Actions have consequences, as do beliefs. For example, the widespread erroneous belief among many parents of autistic children that the mercury in the thimerosal preservative that was used in most childhood vaccines until 2002 somehow caused autism in their children have led some pseudoscientists and parents who have fallen under their sway to subject their […]

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Skepticism/critical thinking

The President of Steorn tries to explain the failure of Orbo

Last week, I wrote about the latest attempt to defy the laws of thermodynamics and make a free energy machine and how it went down in flames. Specifically, I wrote about Steorn, the Irish tech company that announced last August that it had developed technology to produce a free energy machine and more recently announced […]