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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.)

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Blog housekeeping Friday Woo Humor Music

A new theme band for Your Friday Dose of Woo?

The name of this band is damned near perfect: No, not the Shut-Ups (although that’s a pretty cool band name, too). Anyone who reads this blog would know that I’m referring to Down With The Woo. I wonder if their music is any good. If so, they could become the blog band of Respectful Insolence™. […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Bioethics Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Remind me never to get on Brian Deer’s bad side

Before I move on to other topics, I can’t resist one last comment about the corrupt and sleazy Andrew Wakefield, the man who, with the help of heaping piles of cash from lawyers, almost singlehandedly produced a scare over the possibility that the MMR vaccine causes autism so large that vaccination rates in the U.K. […]