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Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery

Finally, Stanislaw Burzynski wins an award that he richly deserves

I got a bit behind on my work yesterday, so I’ll be brief. Yesterday, the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) announced its annual Pigasus Awards. Sadly, each and every year, there are far more “deserving” candidates than there are awards to give. However, this year marks something awesome, namely the first time the prize has […]

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Announcements Medicine

The server for Science-Based Medicine is down

This is just a quick announcement. I’ve been informed by Steve Novella that the Science-Based Medicine blog is currently down. It’s been down for several hours now. Steve’s crack team of techies is working on the problem right now. More information as updates come in.

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine

The death of “Too many too soon”: Not a moment too soon

There are some days when I know what my topic will be—what it must be. These are times in which the universe gives the very appearance of handing to me my topic for the day on the proverbial silver platter with a giant hand descending from the clouds, pointing at it, and saying, “Blog about […]

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Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery

Apparently, according to Eric Merola, Orac is a white supremacist who eats puppies

It’s been less than a week since I wrote about Stanislaw Burzynski. In fact, as hard as it is to believe, I’ve been trying not to. Obviously, I’m failing, but what can I say? Things keep happening. In particular, there’s Eric Merola. You remember Eric Merola? He’s the producer of a propaganda film extolling the […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery

Funny how you never see Orac and this person in the same place at the same time…

Three weeks ago, a certain “friend” of mine gave a talk to the National Capital Area Skeptics at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, VA. The topic was one near and dear to my heart, namely quackademic medicine; so I couldn’t resist posting a link to the video. Amusingly, Jake Crosby makes an appearance in […]