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Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Abraham Cherrix and the promotion of pseudoscience in medical school

One of the aspects of blogging that I’ve come to like is the ability to follow a story’s evolution over the long term and to comment on new developments as they come along. If you’re good at blogging, you can take that story and make it your own, adding it to your list of “signature” […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine History Holocaust denial Medicine Quackery

In the battle of science versus woo…

…sometimes the good guys win. Congratulations to Ben Goldacre for taking on the supplement quack Matthias Rath and prevailing. That he did it even in the notoriously plaintiff-friendly U.K. court system is even better. Indeed, The Guardian also deserves kudos for supporting Ben in this.

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Humor Intelligent design/creationism Politics Skepticism/critical thinking

Saturday Night Live on Sarah Palin

Heh. “Please, ask this one about dinosaurs.” “I invite the media to grow a pair. And if you can’t, I will lend you mine.”

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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 […]