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More Weird Creatures Discovered in Antarctic Seas

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Bioethics Cancer Clinical trials Medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

“Clinical research” on dichloroacetate by TheDCASite.com: A travesty of science

I hadn’t planned on revisiting this topic again quite so soon, but sometimes a piece of information comes up that’s so disturbing that I can’t ignore it and can’t justify delaying blogging about it by very long. So it is yet again with the strange and disturbing saga of dichloroacetate (DCA), the small molecular chemotherapeutic […]

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Announcements Skepticism/critical thinking

Fast approaching: The Skeptics’ Circle

Time passes. What once was new is old, and what once seemed far in the future is now just around the corner. In other words, the Skeptics’ Circle is rapidly approaching again; it’s a mere four days away! This time around, the 61st Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle is scheduled to be hosted by Rebecca […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Humor Medicine Quackery Science fiction/fantasy

Doctor Strange: The only way to make homeopathy work

It would appear that I must respectfully disagree (or be Respectfully Insolent, if you will) with fellow comic fan Scott over at Polite Dissent. Two of my all-time favorite comics are Fantastic Four and (believe it or not, given my present day disdain for woo) Doctor Strange. Doctor Stephen Strange, for those of you not […]

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Medicine Personal

I knew I should have read the abstract book for ASCO

Abel Pharmboy shows why I shouldn’t have left my American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) proceedings abstract sit on my desk unread for a week. Damn. Talk about blowing an opportunity. Of course, given that I don’t own any pharmaceutical stocks (making me a rather poor “tool of big pharma” indeed), it doesn’t matter.