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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Politics Quackery

Senator Tom Harkin: NCCAM has “fallen short” because it hasn’t validated enough woo

Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) owes me a new irony meter. I’ll explain in a minute, but first you have to know why I even give a rodent’s posterior about Harkin. As you may recall, no single legislator in the U.S. has done more to damage the cause of science- and evidence-based medicine than Tom Harkin. […]

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Humor

“Gentlemen, nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource”

I can’t argue with that: I’d mention that the same thing applies to nerd boys. I know, given that I used to be one and now, thirty years on, remain arguably a nerd man. (Via Stupid Evil Bastard) (Yeah, I know I basically took the weekend off, posting only a couple of videos. Don’t worry, […]

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Entertainment/culture Music Television

A David Bowie Saturday

Why? Because I feel like it. For example, there are times I’ve felt like this: Except that maybe I should sing a version called “I’m Afraid of Antivaccinationists.” Nahhh. Instead let’s go back. Way back:

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Announcements Skepticism/critical thinking

Skeptics’ Circle #106 descends upon a waiting world

It’s a little late, but better late than never! Skeptics Circle #106 finally landed last night over at Disillusioned Words. Jeff Stingerstein lays it all out in a “just the facts, m’am” manner that demonstrates that, for all the fantastically creative and wild formats that prior hosts have used to present the last fortnight’s skepticism, […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Friday Woo Medicine Quackery Science Skepticism/critical thinking

Your Friday Dose of Woo: A bio-photon here, a bio-photon there…whatever a bio-photon is

Let’s try this again. Two days ago, I tried to get away from blogging about antivaccinationists. I even succeeded for one day. Unfortunately, that was all, because J.B. Handley and his crew of antivaccine loons cooked up a really big, really deceptive, and really desperate gambit that just couldn’t go unremarked upon. Thus was I […]