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Politics Pseudoscience Science Skepticism/critical thinking

More skepticism about the “psychotics prefer Bush” study

Yesterday, I explained why a study that purports to show that psychotic patients tended to vote for President Bush in the 2004 election and is presently making the rounds to snarky gloating through the left-wing blogosphere is so utterly flawed that almost certainly does not mean what the author claims it does, given the data […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Friday Woo Medicine Religion

Your Friday Dose of Woo: The great spirit squid of doom DIABETES

It’s been five months since I first started Your Friday Dose of Woo. I started it on a whim, after wondering if I should have a Friday feature, as so many other ScienceBloggers do (Friday Cephalopod, Friday Sprog Blogging, The Friday Fermentable, among others). In those five months, this thing has taken on a life […]

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The History Carnival XLIV

More carnival-ly goodness! The History Carnival XLIV has been posted over at Barista. Enjoy!

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Medicine

Change of Shift

Change of Shift, the blog carnival for nursing, has been post at Fat Doctor.

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Politics Pseudoscience Skepticism/critical thinking

Psychotics prefer Bush?

I have to take this opportunity to express a bit of disappointment in one of my fellow SB’ers. When I encounter a study that seems to confirm my biases, as a skeptic, I try very hard to be even more skeptical than usual, because I would hate to be caught trumpeting a weak or bogus […]