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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Removing science from anthropology: Parallels with medicine

It’s grant crunch time, as the submission deadline for revised R01s is July 5. However, in a classic example of how electronic filing has actually made things more difficult, the grant has to be done and at the university grant office a week before the deadline if it is to be uploaded in time. So, […]

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Biology Complementary and alternative medicine Evolution Homeopathy Medicine Quackery Science

If randomized clinical trials don’t show that your woo works, try anthropology!

It’s grant crunch time, as the submission deadline for revised R01s is July 5. However, in a classic example of how electronic filing has actually made things more difficult, the grant has to be done and at the university grant office a week before the deadline if it is to be uploaded in time. So, […]

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Biology Clinical trials Evolution Intelligent design/creationism Medicine Pseudoscience Science Skepticism/critical thinking

Dr. Egnor has his own blog now. Hilarity ensues about evolution and medicine.

Remember Michael Egnor? I bet many of you do. If you were reading this blog three or four years ago, Dr. Egnor was a fairly regular target topic of my excretions of not-so-Respectful Insolence. The reason for that was, at the time, I was quite annoyed that a fellow surgeon could so regularly lay down […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery Religion

Scientology, anti-psychiatry quackery, and Mike Adams: It all becomes clear now

You know, it all makes a lot more sense now. Actually, I can’t believe I didn’t see it before. Here I was, all these years, and somehow the thought never crossed my mind, even though all the signs were right there. And then, yesterday, Tufted Titmouse showed me the light. She showed me the light […]

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Clinical trials Medicine

Stepping back: Lies, damned lies, and…science-based medicine?

Note: Grant writing ruled again this weekend; so I took this post, which first appeared elsewhere, and decided to revise and repost it. It seems appropriate, given what I’ve been discussing lately. Enjoy, and hopefully there’ll be something new tomorrow.. I’ve been complaining a lot about a certain journalist lately, specifically one named David Freedman. […]