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Complementary and alternative medicine Friday Woo Medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Your Friday Dose of Woo: Kissing whales healing dolphins, or: Two great woos that taste great together–again

I’m tired. I apologize in advance if I’m not as–shall we say?–energetic as usual this week. I’m sure you’ll understand. After all, I just spent the last three days subjecting myself to the most toxic and concentrated woo known to humankind. If you’re a regular reader here, you clearly know what I’m talking about, namely […]

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Announcements Skepticism/critical thinking

The 88th Meeting of the Skeptics Circle at the 11th hour!

I must admit that I was getting a bit worried. Morning came today, and there was no Skeptics’ Circle. I went to work. Every so often throughout the day I checked again. Still no Skeptics’ Circle, at least as of early afternoon. I got home from work around 8 PM, and to my relief, there […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Politics Quackery

“Green Our Vaccines”: “Pro-safe vaccine” or anti-vaccine? You be the judge!

The organizers of the “Green Our Vaccines” rally yesterday went to great trouble to keep repeating a mantra that they “aren’t anti-vaccine” but rather “pro-safe vaccine” (or, as Jenny McCarthy likes to put it, “anti-toxin”). I’ve argued that it’s all a cynical ploy to hide their true agenda. What do some of the signs carried […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

“Green Our Vaccines”: Celebrity antivaccinationist ignoramuses on parade. Or: I didn’t know that Dumb & Dumber was a documentary

(Note: In the photo above, the guy in the sunglasses behind Jim Carrey is our old friend Dr. Jay Gordon, Santa Monica antivaccinationist-sympathetic pediatrician to the beautiful people. He’s the one with his tongue sticking out.) It’s worse than I thought. In seeing the first bits of video last night from the “Green Our Vaccines” […]

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Sports

The long national nightmare is over…

…the Stanley Cup series is finally over. I’m not much of a hockey fan, but with Detroit as my hometown it’s hard for me not to acknowledge the victory of my hometown team the Detroit Red Wings. Way to go!