"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, and pseudoscience (and anything else that interests him).

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Same as it ever was: Antivaccine crank Bill Maher loves him some HIV/AIDS quackery

Post author By Orac
Post date February 3, 2016

No quackery, it appears, is too quacky for our "rational" Bill Maher.

I know I must be getting older because of Friday nights. I also know that I’m getting older because (1) there was no new post yesterday and (2) even today this post will look familiar to a significant number of our readership. Mea culpa, but trying to put the finishing touches on two R01 grants […]

Tags antivaccine, Bill Maher, Charlie Sheen, HBO, HIV/AIDS, induced remission therapy, nemesis theory, quackery, Real Time With Bill Maher, Richard Dawkins Award, Samir Chachoua, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Humor Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Television

Bill Maher doubles down on his antivaccine misinformation…again

Post author By Orac
Post date February 16, 2015
110 Comments on Bill Maher doubles down on his antivaccine misinformation…again

I really don’t want Mondays to be come “let’s refute and make fun of the conspiratorial antivaccine nonsense Bill Maher said on his show Friday night.” I really don’t. However, I figured that I might have to devote Monday to that one more time this week after Maher really let his antivaccine freak flag fly […]

Tags animal rights, antivaccine, Baratunde Thurston, Bill Maher, Bob Sears, Brady Bunch, David Duchovny, HBO, herd immunity, Holy Cow, influenza, jay gordon, measles, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, PETA, pseudoscience, Real Time With Bill Maher, vaccines, Zanny Minton Bedoes

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