"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).

Tag: Thinking Moms’ Revolution

Release the Kraken! (I mean antivaccine “Thinkers.”)

Post author By Orac
Post date March 7, 2014
187 Comments on Release the Kraken! (I mean antivaccine “Thinkers.”)

Oh, dear. I didn’t think I’d be writing about that wretched hive of Dunning-Kruger scum and quackery, the most inaptly named website and blog of all time, The Thinking Moms’ Revolution (TMR), after having written about it just earlier this week. When last we visited this klatsch of smugly arrogant moms, one of them was […]

Tags antivaccine, Autism, Core Curriculum, Thinking Moms' Revolution, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery

Pediatricians versus the Dunning-Kruger effect on vaccines

Post author By Orac
Post date March 5, 2014
534 Comments on Pediatricians versus the Dunning-Kruger effect on vaccines

I don’t know if I could be a pediatrician right now. True, I probably don’t have the personality to be a pediatrician, at least not a primary care pediatrician on the front lines. After all, if I did, I probably wouldn’t have become a surgeon, much less a hyperspecialized cancer surgeon. One reason (among many, […]

Tags antivaccine, Dunning-Kruger effect, Thinking Moms' Revolution, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Thinker. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Post author By Orac
Post date February 11, 2014
142 Comments on Thinker. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

After yesterday’s detailed analysis of a study that’s being touted far and wide as “evidence” that vitamin C cures cancer, I thought I deserved a bit of a break. No, that doesn’t mean I’m going to take the day off from blogging. (Obviously, as you’re reading this now.) It does mean that I plan on […]

Tags antivaccine, arrogance of ignorance, Dunning-Kruger effect, quackery, Shannon Strayhorn, Thinking Moms' Revolution, TMR, vaccines

Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

More arrogance of ignorance in the antivaccine movement

Post author By Orac
Post date January 24, 2014
153 Comments on More arrogance of ignorance in the antivaccine movement

After a digression yesterday, it’s time to get back to business. Don’t get me wrong. Yesterday’s post was business. It was definitely something important (to me) that needed to be said, in my not-so-humble pseudonymous opinion. It just wasn’t the usual business I engage in on this blog. I’ve often referred to what I (and […]