I’ve been a bad, bad organizer. Poor Martin went through all that work to put together another bang up Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle (the 130th, to be precise), and I didn’t publicize it. Well, hopefully better late than never. Go. Read. Learn. Then don’t forget that less than two weeks hence, on February 25, […]
I feel really, really good today. The reason? Simple Orac has annoyed Jim Carrey enough to ban him on Twitter. The exchange went something like this. For the first time in a while, I was perusing Twitter (I have a really hard time keeping my Insolence to 140 characters; so I only check my Twitter […]
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A couple of months ago, I wrote about a case that demonstrated conclusively just how easily even respected researchers can be taken in by psuedoscience. Of course, I was not alone. A number of others, including Steve Novella, James Randi, bioethicist Art Caplan, Hank Schlinger, and myself, recognized the reports that a Belgian man named […]
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The silliness about Morgellons and Marc Neumann continues. This time around, it’s someone sending me e-mail from Dr. Rolando Arafile’s website. In my e-mail last night I found this gem: From: “Health2Fit” [email protected] Subject: Violation Date: February 12, 2010 3:54:59 PM EST To: “Orac” [email protected] Please remove our videos that you have on your blog. […]
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The utter discrediting and disgrace of Andrew Wakefield, first by the judgment of the General Medical Council against him and then by the retraction of the crown jewel of his respectability his 1998 Lancet paper that sparked the modern anti-vaccine movement and launched a thousand autism quacks. The reaction of the anti-vaccine loons was very […]
