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Complementary and alternative medicine Humor Medicine Quackery Religion

If only it were this simple…

Inspired by the story of the faith healer who claimed that Jesus cured her of a breast cancer she in fact never had and, it turned out, who also claimed that faith had healed her brother of a terminal cancer and covered up the fact that he was dying while promoting her book, here’s a […]

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Bioethics History Holocaust Medicine Religion Science World War II

Richard Dawkins’ tin ear regarding bioethics: The execution of Saddam Hussein as an “act of vandalism”

It is with a bit of trepidation that I write about this. The reason, for anyone who reads ScienceBlogs specifically or science blogs in general, should be obvious. Richard Dawkins is such a polarizing figure with a penchant for stirring things up with regards to the most deeply held beliefs of both the religious and […]

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Anti-Semitism Holocaust denial

It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy

White supremacist Kevin Strom is busted: Jan. 4, 2007 — A leader of the white supremacist movement was arraigned today on charges of possession of child pornography and witness tampering after being arrested by FBI agents Thursday night at his home in Charlottesville, Va. Kevin Alfred Strom, founder of the National Vanguard white supremacist group, […]

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Cancer Medicine

Cancer and “fate”

Last week, our Seed overlords published on the flagship an Agence France-Presse article about a survey in Britain whose results showed that large numbers of people believe that cancer is due to “fate” rather than risk factors that can be modified to decrease one’s risk of developing the disease: LONDON (AFP)–More than a quarter of […]

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Bioethics Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Oh, no, not again! Another relapse on alternative cancer therapy

It was just last week that I was made aware of the sad news that Katie Wernecke, the 14-year-old girl with Hodgkin’s lymphoma whose parents’ battle to reject radiation therapy and additional chemotherapy made national news in 2005 and who ultimately went for high dose vitamin C therapy at an altie clinic in Kansas, had […]