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Announcements Skepticism/critical thinking

The 53rd Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle

The 53rd Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle has been posted at Slicing with Occam’s Razor. Once again, the best skeptical blogging from the last fortnight has been gathered, sifted, and presented in one tight, easy to peruse package. Next up is Action Skeptics, who will host a fortnight hence, on February 15, 2007. If you’re […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Critical thinking and the scientific method in medical education

It’s things like this over at Over My Med Body! that show our friend Graham really knows how to make a humble guy like Orac feel the love: Big name bloggers like Orac and Dr. RW and KevinMD are all up in arms about how “medical schools are going the wrong way” and asking “Does […]

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Medicine

Carnivalia and an open thread

Three announcements about blog carnivals of interest to my readers: Medical blogging: Grand Rounds, vol. 3, no. 19 has been posted at Envisioning 2.0. Science blogging: Tangled Bank #72 has been posted at Ouroboros. Skeptical blogging: The Skeptics’ Circle will be appearing tomorrow at Slicing with Occam’s Razor. If you’re a blogger who writes about […]

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Evolution Intelligent design/creationism Science Skepticism/critical thinking

Choprawoo and magical thinking: Two crappy tastes that taste crappy together

There I was, puttering around the Internet trying to procrastinate while writing yet another grant, when I came across a truly inane article by Scott Adams arguing that the entire universe must be intelligent because processes that lead to products of intelligent (machines, books, etc., made by us) must also be intelligent. (At least I […]

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Cancer Clinical trials Medicine Politics

Dichloroacetate: One last time…

At the risk of irritating a fellow ScienceBlogger again, I thought I’d point out this little post forwarded to me by Norm Jenson as yet another example of exactly the inflated hype for dichloroacetate as a “cure for cancer” that will “never see the light of day” because it has little profit potential (and, by […]