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Complementary and alternative medicine Humor Medicine Quackery

Reasons to run, not walk, from a Reiki practitioner

Regular readers will know my opinion of Reiki or “energy healing.” No need to rehash it here, at least not at the moment. But if you’re a believer and looking for a Reiki practitioner, Reiki Blogger has some suggestions for you of things that “are NOT OK” in a first Reiki session: I recently read […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Friday Woo Medicine Quackery

Your Friday Dose of Woo: Capturing the vibrational woo of youth

It’s been another eventful week on the ol’ blog, staring out with a post on despereate cancer patients self-experimenting with dichloroacetate, continuing on to do another fisking of the anti-evolution neurosurgeon and discussing real individualization of treatments, provided a little basic cancer biology, and ended up with some of the first straight medblogging that I’ve […]

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Cancer Medicine Politics

Elizabeth Edwards and bone metastases from breast cancer

As odd as it seems, my timing in posting about removing chemotherapy ports yesterday was eerily coincidental. I’ve alluded to this before, but I’m most definitely not a big fan of John Edwards and would never vote for him for President. That being said, I can’t help but feel for him and, even more so, […]

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Announcements Medicine Science Skepticism/critical thinking

Denialism blogging

I’ve been remiss about this (mainly because I’ve been aware of it for a few days now), but it turns out that Mark and Chris Hoofnagle have started a rather promising-looking blog, Denialism.com. It’s a blog dedicated to discussing six main areas: HIV/AIDS Denialism Global Warming denialism Creationism/Intelligent Design Denialism Holocaust Denial Anti-Vaccination denialists Animal […]

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Politics Science Skepticism/critical thinking

Al Gore’s planet fever: Stupidest analogy about global warming ever?

I just heard on the radio last night while driving home what has to be one of the worst analogy about global warming that I’ve ever heard, and, at the risk of annoying fellow SB’ers who frequently write about these topics, like Chris Mooney or Tim Lambert, I felt like commenting. Oddly enough, the soundbite […]