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Medicine

Cockroach dance?

I don’t know why, but I found this endlessly fascinating. Just click on one, and watch what happens. Do it again, and it gets even more complicated. Well, it’s good for a few minutes’ diversion, anyway.

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Send a message to Andrew Wakefield

Kevin Leitch informs me that DAN/ARI are asking people to leave a message for Andrew Wakefield. Yes, that Andrew Wakefield, the man who almost single-handedly started a scare over the MMR vaccine, the man who was paid by lawyers and was either so clueless, careless, and/or dishonest (take your pick) that the lab where he […]

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Science fiction/fantasy

Souvenirs of London

More random weekend chatter… If a big time Doctor Who fan visits London, what is it that he brings back as souvenirs? Well, I had wanted to bring back a large radio-controlled Dalek to harass my wife with, but I just couldn’t figure out how we would get it back on the plane, and I […]

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Religion

A random encounter with religious zealots

Friday afternoon, 2 PM. In my current frame of mind, some things strike me as perhaps more bizarre than they would have normally. This is one such incident. After vacation, arriving back from vacation only to turn around to have to head to Ohio for a funeral, and having to be in the operating room […]

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Announcements Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

The 69th Meeting of the Skeptics Circle is less than a week away!

Hot on the heels of the first Orac-free Skeptics’ Circle in two years, amazingly, another Skeptics’ Circle is coming around the pike far faster than I would have expected. This time around, it will be hosted by a most able blogger, Brent Rasmussen over at the very prominent skeptical blog, Unscrewing the Unscrutable. Brent’s hosted […]