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Me and Orlando Bloom

Note: We’re back in the U.S. However, it is a long holiday weekend here in the States, much like last weekend’s Bank Holiday weekend in England. Consequently, blogging will be mellow until Tuesday. Don’t worry, things will return to normal soon enough, but since traffic’s down due to over a week of mostly reruns and […]

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Medicine Science Surgery

You want to know how to make a surgeon angry?

Vacation time! While Orac is off in London recharging his circuits and contemplating the linguistic tricks of limericks and jokes or the glory of black holes, he’s rerunning some old stuff from his original Blogspot blog. This particular post first appeared on June 3, 2005. Enjoy! Grrr. I was browsing one of my favorite science […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine

Andrew Wakefield’s legacy

I hadn’t been planning on doing any serious pieces to intersperse within the reruns of old posts while on vacation. Despite the impression some have gotten from my Random Observations posts about London and Britain, we’ve had an absolutely wonderful time the last week and are sorry to see it end. (Although I understand that […]

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Science fiction/fantasy

Bummer…

Sadly, I won’t be in London for 10 more days. Consequently, I’ll be missing something really cool that’ll be happening a mere couple of blocks down the street where I’m staying now: I did, however, purchase a nice cast metal replica of the TARDIS at this shop, the Stamp Centre, which seems to carry a […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Friday Woo Medicine Skepticism/critical thinking

Your Friday Dose of Woo…

…is still on vacation in London. It will return next week. I will mention, however, that I managed to find time to take a stroll by the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital the other day. No, the fabric of space-time was not torn, but, sadly, I didn’t work up the gumption to enter the building because […]