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Vacation’s end

Sadly, for many, today marks the end of their vacation (or at least of their long weekend). Fortunately, I was smart enough (as well as able) to take one last precious day off tomorrow to head into the city and check out an exhibit at the Met that my wife and I want to see. […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Bioethics Medicine Quackery

Surprise, surprise! Andrew Wakefield was paid by lawyers to undermine the MMR vaccine

This should come as no surprise. Thanks to Brian Deer, the journalist who uncovered so much of Dr. Andew Wakefield’s shady research and dealings, we now know that Wakefield was paid by lawyers before his infamous MMR study and that he failed to disclose this clear conflict of interest: ANDREW WAKEFIELD, the former surgeon whose […]

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Paranormal Skepticism/critical thinking

Stop Sylvia Browne

What a lovely way to start the New Year, catching up on all the blogging I missed while I was on vacation. While doing so, via Skeptico, I came across a most worthy project: Stop Sylvia Browne. In this site, Rob Lancaster has accumulated in one easy stop a lot of useful information that helps […]

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Humor Science fiction/fantasy

A belated Boba Fett Christmas and Happy New Year

Star Wars geek that I am (the original three movies, anyway), I couldn’t resist posting this…. Happy New Years, all! If you’re partying tonight, don’t drink and drive.

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Skepticism/critical thinking

Worst argument ever?

The host of next week’s Skeptics’ Circle asks: What’s the worst argument you can think of? I think it’s as good a question to close 2006 up with as any, and certainly there have been a lot of really bad arguments used during the last year. Perhaps if we air some of them, we can […]