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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery Science Skepticism/critical thinking

Joe Mercola’s shampoo woo

Even after having been at this skeptical medical blogging game for nearly six years, every so often I still come across woo about which I had been previously unaware. It’s hard to believe, but it’s true. In fact, I’m beginning to think that, even if I were to keep blogging until I drop dead (hopefully […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Boyd Haley finally does the right thing, but is it for the wrong reasons?

As you may have heard, the strike is over. That doesn’t mean the crisis is over, nor does it necessarily mean that I will be staying with ScienceBlogs, but I view management’s response as a positive move that may be enough to keep me here. Now management needs to lose the Google ads for quackery, […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine

Questions requested for an anti-vaxer

While the drama continues and interesting developments occur, I’ve found that I actually don’t mind taking a couple of days off. Don’t worry. Blogging’s a bug that’s gotten into me and, like PZ, I’ll probably start twitching and seizing if I go too long without producing one of my patented logorrheic screeds of pure insolence, […]

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Blogging

Another one gone…

…this time it’s Abel Pharmboy, who’s now here. Please reset your bookmarks. Farewell, friend. I’ll still be reading.

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Just a notice while I’m dithering over my future here at Sb…

…remember that the following three domains will always point to where I am: http://www.respectfulinsolence.net http://www.respectfulinsolence.org https://www.respectfulinsolence.com Also remember that, should anything happen, I still have my old Blogspot blog Respectful Insolence, which can be reactivated at a moment’s notice, as I did last year when an attempt at a software upgrade at ScienceBlogs took longer […]