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Announcements

The 98th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle…

…is here at The Uncredible Hallq, and it’s a fine collection of the latest skeptical blogging. Meanwhile the countdown towards #100 continues. Next up is King of Ferrets Ferret Cage, who will be hosting the 99th Edition of the Skeptics’ Circle a fortnight hence, on Thursday, November 6, 2008. I should go back and check […]

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Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Breast Cancer Awareness Month abused by Mike Adams, 2008 edition

I’ll give Mike Adams one thing. He’s consistent. Consistently a crank, that is. Yes, that purveyor of woo, paranoia, and conspiracy theories, not to mention the creator of one of the five largest repositories of quackery support on the Internet, NaturalNews.com, the other three being Mercola.com, Whale.to, CureZone, and Gary Null, is up to his […]

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Religion

I can’t believe people like this exist, part II

After posting about some openly racist McCain supporters from–sadly, as it is a state in which I lived for eight years and happened to like, by and large, particularly since it’s the state where my wife hails from–Ohio, I hadn’t planned on doing more posts like this. But a theme emerges, and I decided that […]

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Cancer Clinical trials Medicine

“Targeted” drugs not as “targeted’ as hoped?

I hate it when an article starts right out with a rather annoying usage of terminology, even when it provides information that interests me: (AP) — Nearly a fourth of widely used new-generation biological drugs that treat several common diseases produce serious side effects that lead to safety warnings soon after they go on the […]

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Announcements

Last call for the Skeptics’ Circle

Yike. I’ve been truly remiss in my duty. The Skeptics’ Circle is a mere day and a half away. But it’s not too late to submit your best skeptical work to Chris at The Uncredible Hallq. So, if you wanted to submit a post this week but haven’t gotten around to it, there isn’t much […]