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More stomping free speech flat in Europe: Genocide “denial” to be criminalized?

Remember how often I rail against misguided laws that seek to criminalize Holocaust denial, laws such as the one in Austria under which David Irving was imprisoned? I’ve referred to them more than once as “stomping free speech flat,” and I still believe that’s what they do. I’ve also pointed out the danger of a […]

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Drug rep toys reviewed, but one big one’s missing!

Here’s a blog that Shelley discovered and that I’ve been meaning to mention for a week now: Drug Rep Toys. Yep, it’s a blog whose purpose is to review and rate the various bits of swag that drug reps hand out to us doctors in the hopes that (I guess) we’ll prescribe or use their […]

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Cancer Clinical trials Intelligent design/creationism Medicine Skepticism/critical thinking

Laying the cluestick on DaveScot over dichloroacetate (DCA) and cancer

I know, I know, I said last time that I probably wouldn’t post on dichloroacetate and the hype some of the more credulous parts of the blogosphere are falling for over its being supposedly a “cancer cure” that big pharma is either willfully ignoring or actively suppressing. However, when DaveScot and the sycophants on Uncommon […]

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Happy blogiversary to Skeptico

Skeptico announces it’s his second blogiversary! Skeptico is one of the premier skeptical blogs out there, and, although he isn’t posting as much as he used to, can still be counted on to provide some of the best takesdowns of woo there are. Go on over and say hi and read his retrospective of the […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Friday Woo Medicine Pseudoscience Skepticism/critical thinking

Your Friday Dose of Woo: The Alchemy of Woo

You know, I really wish I could have made it to The Amazing Meeting this year. It would have been really cool to have a chance to hear in person such skeptical luminaries, such as The Amazing Randi, Penn and Teller (although I do concede that Penn’s Libertarianism does occasionally border on credulity for some […]