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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Ineffective alternative medicine is not always harmless

Due to a death in the family, I have to go back into the vaults of the old blog for some more reposts. Regular blogging should resume in a day or two. This particular post first appeared on February 1, 2006. Here’s something I wish there was more of, the criminal prosecution of quacks when […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine History Hitler Zombie Holocaust Medicine Quackery World War II

Arthur Caplan finds the Hitler zombie in bioethics

Vacation time! While Orac is gone 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 July 25, 2005 . Although the Undead Führer himself has made only one appearance, but […]

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History Hitler Zombie Holocaust Politics World War II

I fought the Hitler zombie, and the Hitler zombie won…maybe

Vacation time! While Orac is gone 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 23, 2005 and is the fourth ever Hitler Zombie post. Although the Undead Fuhrer […]

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Anti-Semitism History Holocaust Holocaust denial

Abe Foxman: Genocide denier?

My regular readers here know to what lengths I go to combat Holocaust denial on the Internet. It’s a fairly regular topic on this blog, as is rebutting the lies Holocaust deniers routinely spout. Not surprisingly, Holocaust deniers like to try to portray me as either Jewish or somehow in the thrall of the ADL, […]

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

Your Friday Dose of Woo: A homeopathic journal club

So, after nearly two weeks of torturing myself trying to put together an R01-level grant on short notice and make it actually competitive, I’m finally free. The grant has been submitted (amazingly, the online submission process went through without a hitch), and, sleep-deprived but still hopped up on the Sudafed that kept the mucus membranes […]