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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Skepticism/critical thinking

Acupuncture for Parkinson’s disease?

Critics who don’t like my insistence on applying the scientific method to the claims of alternative medicine sometimes accuse me of unrelenting hostility towards alternative medicine, as though no amount of evidence would ever convince me of the efficacy of various alternative medicine therapies. Nothing could be further from the truth; I merely insist, as […]

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Medicine

Street Anatomy

PZ mentioned it, but, after having seen it, I thought I’d give it a plug too, mainly because my readership skews more towards the medical blogosphere than PZ’s does, and a new blog this promising should be publicized to other medical bloggers. It’s by a graduate student in Biomedical Visualization at the University of Illinois […]

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Entertainment/culture Evolution Politics Science

A Seed field trip?

I haven’t seen a Broadway play in quite a while now, but it may be time for that to change. In the New York Times, I came across an ad for a revival of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee´s 1955 courtroom drama Inherit the Wind: This revival of the play stars two great actors, […]

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Humor Music News of the Weird Religion

Donnie Davies “outed”?

Remember Donnie Davies, the “youth pastor” that I wrote about a couple of days ago, who posted a list of gay bands, plus a homophobic video proclaiming that “God hates a fag” that led to a prolonged debate over whether he was for real or some sort of elaborate Borat-like prank? Two sources tell me […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine

Medical schools going the wrong way

Everyone who reads this blog regularly knows my dismay at the infiltration of the curriculum of American medical schools with increasing amounts of non-evidence-based woo. It’s even gotten to the point where one medical school (Georgetown University) has is integrating alternative medicine into the mandatory curriculum during all four years, even though these modalities are […]