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Jenny McCarthy and Oprah Winfrey: Two crappy tastes that taste crappy together on autism

I have to tip my hat to Kevin Leitch. I really do. He’s done something that I couldn’t manage to force myself to do, at least not completely. He’s

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The 70th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle: It’s a conspiracy on the way!

Time flies. Amazingly, another Skeptics’ Circle is coming around the pike far faster than I would have expected. This time around, it will be hosted by longtime commenter (and now blogger) Factitian over at Conspiracy Factory and will take its place in the skeptical rogues’ gallery of past editions on Thursday, September 27. For your […]

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Your Friday Dose of Woo: In which I am given a woo-ducation in neuroscience

As I usually do on Thursday nights, I was perusing my legendary Folder of Woo looking for just the thing to be interesting and entertaining to both me as the blogger and you as the reader. As happens occasionally, nothing was really doing it for me. Nothing was getting me fired up to launch into […]

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Some antivaccination stupidity about autism on Daily Kos

I don’t know how I missed this one, but it jut goes to show that antivaccination ignorance with respect to autism is truly a bipartisan affair. You have folks like Representative Dan Burton on the right, and on the left you have this particular Daily Kos diarist, who falls like a ton of bricks for […]

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Enamored of a long run for a short slide

In today’s earlier post, a commenter stated: You sure do like that “long run for a short slide” phrase. I wondered: Is that true? Do I use that phrase too much? So, like any good blogger, I did a search. And what did I find? I found that, in the entire history of this blog […]