Respectful Insolence
Archives for May 3, 2006
Who needs V for Vendetta when you can watch C for Cookie?
Posted by Orac on May 3, 2006
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Medical wiki revisited
Posted by Orac on May 3, 2006 Last week, I wrote a rather lengthy (or, as my detractors would probably call it, “long-winded”) post about the concept of a medical wikipedia. As you may recall, I expressed considerable skepticism about whether the wikipedia concept could work as well as its boosters claim it could. Even though others have clarified what a medical…
S.C.A.M., Skeptics, and Chickens
Posted by Orac on May 3, 2006 I love a good fisking, and James over at Autism Street has administered a real blog slapdown to a really idiotic article defending “natural medicine.” He rightly points out the jaw-droppingly obvious straw men and appeals to other ways of knowing that Mike Adams uses in the article. But don’t take just my word for…