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One last reminder…

…that I and a bunch of other ScienceBloggers will be at the following location from 2-4 PM today: Details: 2pm-4pm on Saturday, August 9 Social 795 8th Ave (close to 49th St.) New York, NY 10019 A couple of warnings: Point one: I’m a lot more boring and unassuming in person than I am on […]

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Announcements

Fast approaching: The Skeptics’ Circle

It’s that time again. The longer I’m at this, the faster time seems to fly, but it’s already here again. Yes, the next meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle is scheduled to land at City of Skeptics in less than a week, on Thursday, August 14. If you’re a skeptical blogger, get cracking and submit your […]

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Personal Politics

So bad only he can change a lifelong political orientation

“If you’re not a liberal at 20, you have no heart. And if you’re not a conservative at 40, you have no head.” – Winston Churchill Like one of my blog buds, PalMD, I usually don’t discuss purely political issues on this blog. After all, I have my niche, and I’ve become quite good at […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Bioethics Entertainment/culture Medicine

Jenny McCarthy might have some competition

This is disturbing. No, it’s not disturbing because it’s a story potentially about autism. It’s not even disturbing because it indicates that Jenny McCarthy might soon have some competition in the brain dead antivaccinationist autism mom competition. It’s disturbing because of who Jenny’s new competition might be: Britney has a whole new problem on her […]

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Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Here’s your chance…

…to ask über-quack Hulda Clark, the woman who disagrees with Dr. Simoncini in that she thinks that all cancer is caused by an intestinal fluke and that she can cure it by “zapping” it with a chintzy device she calls a “Zapper” that looks a lot like a Scientology E-meter, any question you want. She’s […]