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Evolution Medicine Science

The winner!

The winners of the Alliance for Science essay contest that I mentioned a couple of months ago, where high school students were asked to write an essay of 1,000 words or less about the topic Why would I want my doctor to have studied evolution?, have been announced. My only question is why the actual […]

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Clinical trials Evolution Medicine Science

Medicine and Evolution, Part 11: Studying the mechanism of multidrug resistance

Our creationist neurosurgeon, Dr. Michael Egnor, isn’t going to like this one bit. No doubt he’ll try to call it “artificial selection” or a “tautology” when he finds out about it, if he doesn’t just ignore it because he it doesn’t fit in with his view that studying evolution is “of no value” in medicine. […]

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Evolution Intelligent design/creationism Medicine Science Skepticism/critical thinking Surgery

Better late than never

Infophilia finds Dr. Michael Egnor’s invocation of the Stalin Zombie from a couple of months ago and tears it apart. Come to think of it, Egnor’s been laying down some silliness about evolution lately. I had been restraining myself from commenting due to my previous oversaturation blogging about his antics, but I think I’ve given […]

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Evolution Intelligent design/creationism Medicine Science Skepticism/critical thinking Surgery

Three swings, three misses

Regular readers of this blog may have noticed that it’s been quite a while since I’ve featured the antics of a certain character who’s become a bit of the bête noire of my fellow surgeons. I’m referring, of course, to Dr. Michael Egnor, a renowned neurosurgeon from SUNY Stony Brook who’s made 2007 a very […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Paranormal Pseudoscience Religion Skepticism/critical thinking Surgery

Michael Egnor = Deepak Chopra? You be the judge!

In blogging, there are some topics that I know that I really shouldn’t bother with; yet, somehow they suck me in. A number of things can cause that. Perhaps it’s a topic that just gets under my skin to the point where I can’t hold back a commentary, even when I know that it might […]