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Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Politics Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Abraham Cherrix’s lymphoma in “remission”?

It would appear that there’s finally some good news in the strange and sad case of Starchild Abraham Cherrix. The AP reports that he and his doctor are reporting that his lymphoma is in remission again: FLOYD, Va. — A 17-year-old who won a court battle against state officials who tried to force him to […]

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Announcements Medicine Surgery

Surgexperiences 104

I’ve been very remiss about this, but the e-mail notifying me of it happened to arrive a couple of weeks ago, back when I was out of town because of the recent death in the family. While cleaning out my e-mail boxes, I came across the notice again and decided it was time to rectify […]

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Politics Religion

Glory, glory, hallelujah!

Even though I only rarely blog about politics, I’m with Ed Brayton, P. Z. Myers, and Amygdala on this one. Truly a wonderful thing has happened to the Presidential race. Alan Keyes has entered the race for the 2008 Republican nomination for President. No one can bring the crazy and stupid to a Presidential race […]

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Medicine News of the Weird Science

The 20 most bizarre science experiments of all time

There’s a long and strange history of truly bizarre experiments done in the name of science. Alex Boese has gathered twenty of the strangest examples here. There are the usual suspects, such as the Stanford prison experiment and the Milgram obedience experiment, but there were others that I hadn’t heard of. To me, the award […]

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Religion Science fiction/fantasy

This might almost make me go back to church!

Now here’s a church service that I could get into, the Church of the Time Lord. As an article in Metro.co.uk says: A congregation are to be invited to compare a Time Lord with the Lord of Time at a special Dr Who-themed church service, it was disclosed today. Teenagers and young people in their […]