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Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine

Weekend mailbag: Orac is a bad, bad man

After yesterday’s lovefest that really did go to my head. Really, when I wrote it I wasn’t trolling for praise, although in retrospect it now does kind of look that way to me. I was simply expressing amazement that anyone would listen to a pseudonymous (although not really anonymous anymore) blogger. Fortunately for my ego, […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

If this keeps up, it all might go to my head, such as it is

Even after over three years at this, I still find it amazing that as many people read my verbal meanderings as in fact do. In fact, I still can’t believe that I’m one of the more popular medical bloggers out there. True, I’ll probably never approach the traffic and readership of the huge political blogs […]

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Medicine Religion Surgery

When religion interferes with medical education

I’ve often written about the intersection of medicine and religion. Most commonly, I’ve lamented how the faithful advocate inappropriately injecting religion into the doctor-patient relationship in a manner that risks imposing the religion of the health care practitioner on the patient, sometimes through physicians feeling no obligation to inform patients of therapeutic options that violate […]

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Announcements

The 95th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle: The 9/11 Edition

The 95th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle has been posted by Bob Carroll over at Skeptimedia: Seven years ago, The Very Lost Prophecies of Michel Nostradamus were found by Quantum Beam Radium and Harvard Veritas Schwartz in a Peruvian cave. Dr. Schwartz’s validated spirit guide directed the pair to the cave by interpreting entangled stains […]

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History Personal

September 11, 2001: Has it really been seven years?

There are some days when I just don’t feel like posting the usual stuff, and September 11 is just one of those days. So today there’ll be no woo-bashing, no evisceration of postmodernist nonsense, no sarcastic assaults on antivaccinationists. In a more serious vein, there won’t be any analyses of scientific papers, clinical studies, or […]