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Bioethics Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

The day after Thanksgiving: A bit of reading for you–and a “framing” response

Believe it or not, sometimes even Orac has a life. I know, I know, between the ridiculously logorrheic blogging here and other online activities, coupled with even more ridiculous long hours working at his day job, it’s hard to conceive. However, my wife and I had a whole passel of relatives over, several of whom […]

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Evolution Intelligent design/creationism Medicine Politics Pseudoscience Religion Science Skepticism/critical thinking

Denialism: Sometimes there’s no other way to describe it. Except maybe one.

Here we go again. Every so often, one of the–shall we say?–less popular members of our crew of science bloggers, someone who, despite being an academic whose area of expertise is ostensibly science communication, has stepped in it again. I’m referring, of course to Matt Nisbet. Only this time, it’s not him lecturing us just […]

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Evolution Intelligent design/creationism Medicine Pseudoscience Science Skepticism/critical thinking

Where’s that Doctor Doom mask again?

As I sat down on the couch in front of the TV last night to do my nightly blogging ritual, trying to tickle the gray matter to come up with the pearls of wisdom or insolence that my readers have come to know and love, I had a fantastic idea for a serious consideration of […]

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Medicine Politics

Paying for unapproved drugs

One of the handful of key themes that run through this blog day in, day out, week in, week, out, and year in, year out is that science and the application of the scientific method represent the most successful strategy that humans have yet come up with to improve human health. A consequence of this […]

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The 100th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle: The trouble with Orac

It’s the 100th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle, and Orac is unleashed!