I know I like to say that woo is eternal, and it is. That doesn’t, however, mean that individual examples of woo are necessarily eternal. Some, it seems, are. Does anyone doubt, for example, that homeopathy, which has been around for over two hundred years now, will still be around 200 years from now? I’d […]
Better late than never, they always say. Michael Meadon may have been a few hours later than the usual edition of the Skeptics’ Circle, but when he finally delivered the 89th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle it was well worth the wait. He even showed me a promising new blogger: Redonkulous Redundancy is a new […]
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…and his name is Edzard Ernst. And here’s the reason why. Anyone who can rile up homeopaths that much is my kind of guy.
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I’m a cancer surgeon, and if there’s one thing that drives me straight to the liquor cabinet it has to be quack cancer “cures.” Very early in the history of this blog, I discussed one of the biggest quacks of all time, a woman who thinks that all cancer is caused by a liver fluke […]
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I just shook my head as I perused this item on Pharyngula earlier this morning. What else can you do? The irrationality and lunacy is beyond belief as I read a story about a mother named Colleen Leduc called into school because a report of sexual abuse was made about her autistic daughter Victoria: The […]
