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Medicine

Last call for submissions to the Skeptics’ Circle

Hard as it is to believe, that time is almost upon us again. This Thursday, July 6, the latest Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle will appear yet again, as it does every two weeks. This time around, the host is LBBP at The Skeptic Rant. You still have a couple of days before the deadline […]

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Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine

The Cancer Blog goes woo

I used to like The Cancer Blog. I really did. It was one of the first medical blogs I discovered many months ago when I first dipped my toe into the blogosphere. Indeed, less than two months after I started blogging, one of The Cancer Blog’s bloggers then, Dr. Leonardo Faoro, even invited me to […]

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Humor

More lemming behavior: An advertising slogan from hell

On the weekend, fellow ScienceBloggers seem prone to mass hysteria, taking various silly Internet tests. Even I, Orac, have succumbed to such temptations. I wasn’t going to succumb to this one, as Grrlscientist, PZ, Afarensis, Chris, and Bora have, but then I saw the result. Using the same Advertising Slogan Generator, I think I have […]

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Medicine

Pediatric Grand Rounds

The latest Pediatric Grand Rounds has been posted at Breath Spa for Kids. There are a lot of great links for your Sunday reading pleasure. Enjoy!

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Pseudoscience fights back

The guys over at Medgaget are guys after my own heart. After commenting on a dubious-sounding device called the emWave Personal Stress Reliever, which, as its makers claim, is Scientifically Validated: Stress creates incoherence in our heart rhythms. However, when we are in a state of high heart rhythm coherence the nervous system, heart, hormonal […]