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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 […]

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News of the Weird

Urban legend or evidence that some officials performing weddings are as humorless as TSA agents are required to be?

You be the judge. I find it odd, though, that the name of the bride and groom are not mentioned in the story.

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Evolution Humor Music Science

Darwin and The Beatles?

I like this T-shirt design! Perhaps our Seed overlords would spring for sufficient funds to clothe all of us ScienceBloggers in this fine garb. (Via Boing Boing.)