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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Naturopathy Quackery

Why would naturopaths want to prescribe those evil big pharma drugs?

Recently, there’s been a movement afoot among purveyors of that special brand of “natural” woo known as naturopathy to convince various legislatures and regulatory bodies that they not only are capable of serving as primary care physicians but that they should be allowed to do so. My first impression was laughter–that is, until I realized […]

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Entertainment/culture Humor Television

Funniest commercial ever?

You be the judge! And patriotic, too! Huh, huh, huh. He said “stimulus package.”

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery Religion

The Catholic Church versus Reiki

Nearly two weeks ago, P.Z. Myers mentioned a story that would normally have provoked a post by me. Specifically, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops had issued a warning against the use of reiki as being unscientific, unproven, and, worse, “dangerous to Christian spiritual health.” Unfortunately, this story came out right before Autism Awareness Month […]

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Skepticism/critical thinking

The 109th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle: A crisis of credibility

Better late than never, I guess. Martin of Lay Scientist had some technical difficulties and was a bit late in delivering his Skeptics’ Circle, the 109th Meeting of the Skeptics Circle. Suffice it to say that it features some…unexpected characters. Next up two weeks hence is Waffle. Contact information is here. Bloggers, get your best […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Medicine

The mindset of an antivaccinationist revealed, courtesy of Jake Crosby of The Age of Autism blog

Readers may have noticed that we’ve had a minor antivaccine troll infestation in a couple of previous posts. It’s no big deal of course, hardly worth my attention–except for one thing. That one thing is that a certain member of the antivaccine propaganda blog Age of Autism, for which no evidence that vaccines are not […]