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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Politics Quackery

Joseph Chikelue Obi: It’s the Society of Homoepathic Thuggery all over again, or more abusive legal threats against a skeptical blogger

Three months ago, I wrote about vacuous legal threats issued by the Society of Homeopaths against one of the better skeptical bloggers, Le Canard Noir, who runs the excellent Quackometer Blog and created the infamous Quackometer, in order to intimidate him into silence. The attempt backfired spectacularly, as scores of bloggers reposted the article by […]

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Cancer Medicine

An opposite effect of chemotherapy?

Let’s face it. These days, research papers in the peer-reviewed biomedical scientific literature are becoming more and more complex and difficult to understand. For many journals, it seems, if you don’t have at least seven meaty, dense, multipanel figures (preferably some of which with flashy color confocal microscopy), you don’t have a prayer of getting […]

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Medicine Pseudoscience Religion Skepticism/critical thinking

Deepak Chopra misunderstands skepticism

Things are crazy now for me, both at home and at work. I mean really, really crazy. So crazy that even I, one of the most verbose bloggers out there, am forced to take two or three days off from my little addiction–I mean habit. Consequently, having foreseen that this time would come around these […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

How vaccine litigation distorts the VAERS database

Things are crazy now for me, both at home and at work. I mean really, really crazy. So crazy that even I, one of the most verbose bloggers out there, am forced to take two or three days off from my little addiction–I mean habit. Consequently, having foreseen that this time would come around these […]

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Anti-Semitism Evolution History Hitler Zombie Holocaust Intelligent design/creationism Politics Religion Science Skepticism/critical thinking World War II

A trio of terror, part III: The search for everybody’s favorite brain-eating Führer continues

Things are crazy now for me, both at home and at work. I mean really, really crazy. So crazy that even I, one of the most verbose bloggers out there, am forced to take two or three days off from my little addiction–I mean habit. Consequently, having foreseen that this time would come around these […]