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Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Humor Medicine Quackery

A first: A cease and desist Tweet

Remember Doctors Data? It’s the highly dubious medical laboratory that Trine Tsouderos exposed in her series on the quackery that is the “autism biomed” movement. A couple of weeks ago, Doctors Data also decided to launch what appears to be frivolous lawsuit against the creator and maintainer of the Quackwatch website, Steve Barrett; i.e. a […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Politics

“Health fascism” in Australia? The anti-vaccine loons think so

Although The Amazing Meeting is now over, my vacation is not, at least not yet. My wife and I decided to take an extra couple of days off before winging our way home tomorrow. Originally I had planned on posting “reruns” for a couple of days, but something popped up that I felt obligated to […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Humor Medicine Quackery

If belief in homeopathy is not evolutionarily selected for…

…then how come there are so many believers in homeopathy? Truly, a scientific mystery…

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Personal

Has it really been two whole years?

I may be in Las Vegas as The Amazing Meeting winds down today, but still I’m a bit sad. Has it really been two whole years today? Yes, we have a different dog now, but does the presence of a new friend make you forget a friend who’s died?

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Entertainment/culture Humor Movies

While I’m still away at TAM8…the 100 greatest movie insults of all time

Still away, still having too much fun to blog. So….we still need content: Fear not. The logorrheic insolence will return. Just not today. In fact, as this autoposts, I’ll be heading over to the Skepchick party. I’m a little nervous. I don’t think I’ve been to such a bash since college or medical school. I’m […]