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Complementary and alternative medicine Friday Woo Medicine Quackery

Your Friday Dose of Woo: A little Thanksgiving bonus woo to help you melt away the pounds

For the holidays, I thought I’d include a brief little bit of woo that seems not quite extensive enough for a full treatment in Your Friday Dose of Woo but is nonetheless a tasty woo morsel for your edification that fits in with the usual Thanksgiving theme of overindulgence in various foods and the deleterious […]

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Humor

Cue the Theremin…

…because some serious weirdness has invaded Respectful Insolence. If you want to know where, just look at these comments that popped up overnight about an old post of mine about the moon landing in 1969.

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Friday Woo Skepticism/critical thinking

Your Friday Dose of Woo: Oxygenate your silver! (Or is it “silverate” your water?)

It may be Thanksgiving weekend here in the States, and fellow ScienceBloggers PZ and Ed may be getting sniping at each other over Larry Moran‘s rather intemperate comments. (Can’t we all just get along, guys, at least for the holidays anyway?). Worse, this kerfluffle is threatening to suck in other fellow ScienceBloggers Mike Dunford, John […]

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Blogging

Another thing to be thankful for: The only way I’ll ever be associated with Paris Hilton

Since some other members of the ScienceBlogs collective are doing it, link whore that I am, I couldn’t resist putting my blog into this site and seeing where it ranked. And here’s the result:

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Medicine

Thanksgiving carnivalia

Here’s some reading to keep you entertained while the Respectfully Insolent gang loads up on turkey: 1. Grand Rounds Vol. 3, No. 9 (albeit a couple of days late) 2. Tangled Bank #67: Giving Thanks for Science 3. The Carnival of Bad History No. 11