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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Television

Media medicine: Arghh!

I sometimes wonder if those doctors who do health segments for various TV news outlets are “real” doctors, given the sorts of things they actually say. Oh, Dr. Dean Edell is a pretty evidence-based guy most of the time (one of his finest moments being his takedown of Dr. Lorraine Day on the air), but […]

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Humor Skepticism/critical thinking

Dumbest vegetarian ever?

This particular woman makes the case that she deserves the title: I think she wins hands down, don’t you? She must be one of those pollo-vegetarians. Because, after all, chickens aren’t “animals.”

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Announcements

Tangled Bank

A brand, spankin’ new Tangled Bank has been posted over at fellow ScienceBlogger Tara’s Aetiology. It’s more science bloggy goodness than you can absorb in one day. And while we’re on the topic of blog carnivals, don’t forget that the latest Skeptics’ Circle will be appearing at Geek Counterpoint tomorrow. You still have a few […]

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Announcements Medicine

Grand Rounds

The latest Grand Rounds, that blog carnival for medicine and health care issues, has been posted at the ironically named (I hope) Dr. Dork. Check it out.

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Bioethics Cancer Clinical trials Medicine

Dichloroacetate and The DCA Site: A low bar for “success”

It’s been a couple of weeks since we last checked in with The DCA Site, that dubious advertising site for BuyDCA.com, where a chemist named Jim Tassano sells to desperate cancer patients non-pharmaceutical grade and non-FDA-approved dichloroacetate, the small molecule chemotherapeutic agent with an interesting and unusual mechanism of action that has shown promise in […]