October 31, 2006
Halloween video madness, part 4
Category: Music
Back to Alice Cooper:...
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Halloween video madness, part 3 (More braaaaiiinnns!)
Category: Blog carnivals • Music
No Alice Cooper this time. Instead, given that this is the blog that conceived of the Hitler Zombie, how could I not post a clip involving an actual cinematic brain-eating zombie on Halloween? (Warning: In the interest of full disclosure,...
Posted by Orac at 2:31 PM • 0 Comments
Halloween video madness, part 2
Category: Entertainment/culture • Music
More Halloween-appropriate mania from Alice Cooper, this time with Vincent Price! And more:...
Posted by Orac at 12:01 PM • 0 Comments
Justice for Abubakar Tariq Nadama at last?
Category: Alternative medicine • Autism • Medicine • Quackery
A little more than a year ago, an autistic boy named Abubakar Tariq Nadama died of a cardiac arrest due to hypocalcemia at the hands of an "alternative medicine" practitioner named Dr. Roy Kerry while chelation therapy was being administered...
Posted by Orac at 8:31 AM • 123 Comments
Halloween video madness, part 1
Category: Entertainment/culture • Music
it's Halloween, and I thought I'd celebrate by posting a few appropriate YouTube! videos. And what says Halloween quite like Alice Cooper?...
Posted by Orac at 3:08 AM • 2 Comments
October 30, 2006
Jon Swift on Rush Limbaugh
Category: Bioethics • Medicine • Politics
Last week, I wrote a couple of posts about Rush Limbaugh's despicable attacks on Michael J. Fox for appearing in an ad for a Democrat who supports loosening the federal ban on funding for embryonic stem cell research. Somehow, I...
Posted by Orac at 1:20 PM • 19 Comments
Institutional review boards overreaching?
Category: Bioethics • Clinical trials • Medicine
Institutional review boards (IRBs) are the cornerstone of the protection of human subjects in modern biomedical research. Mandated by the federal government in the 1970's in the wake of research abuses of the 20th century, in particular the the horrors...
Posted by Orac at 8:38 AM • 10 Comments
October 29, 2006
Another truly scary Halloween costume
Category: Entertainment/culture • Humor • Music • Television
Remembering two rather frivolous posts that I made last weekend, you might have an idea of what this costume might be. Yes, you too can Be The Hoff. Of course, if The Hoff is not your style, you can also...
Posted by Orac at 3:01 PM • 2 Comments
Wingnuts against Harry Potter--again
Category: Politics • Religion • Science fiction/fantasy
It seems to be the time of the year for this sort of thing. Yes, I realize that the Harry Potter novels have come under attack from various fundamentalist Christians, who view them as somehow indoctrinating children into witchcraft, Wicca,...
Posted by Orac at 12:18 PM • 42 Comments
A truly scary Halloween costume
Leave it to Jason Foxtrot......
Posted by Orac at 10:44 AM • 11 Comments
October 28, 2006
Cardinals win
Category: Sports
Mitch Albom sums the World Series and the Tiger's 2006 season up far better than I ever could....
Posted by Orac at 11:31 AM • 2 Comments
Learn Yiddish with George and Laura
Category: Humor
With the Tigers losing the World Series last night, I think I need something light and funny to pick me up. Here's just the thing: Believe it or not, you don't have to be Jewish to learn Yiddish with George...
Posted by Orac at 10:16 AM • 0 Comments
October 27, 2006
I know I said that I wanted a repeat of the 1968 World Series, but this is ridiculous
Category: Sports
This is getting depressing. Last night, the Tigers lost a particularly heartbreaking game 5-4. It's heartbreaking because it's a game that they really should have won. Unfortunately errors and the two unearned runs that they allowed killed them. Now the...
Posted by Orac at 7:01 PM • 6 Comments
Friday Random Ten
Category: Music
It's Friday, and I haven't done this for a long time; so here we go. I fired up iTunes, set it to Shuffle Play, and awaited with baited breath for what came out. See how this stuff compares to Mark's...
Posted by Orac at 3:47 PM • 7 Comments
QuackSafeâ„¢ Google searching
Category: Alternative medicine • Blogging • Medicine • Quackery
Tired of doing Google searches for evidence-based discussions of dubious-sounding medical treatments and finding that the first 100 sites (or, if you're unlucky, the first 1,000 sites) that pop up are nothing more than altie woo, shills selling alternative medicine...
Posted by Orac at 12:01 PM • 7 Comments
Your Friday Dose of Woo: The Iron Rule of German New Medicine
Category: Alternative medicine • Cancer • Friday Woo • Medicine • Skepticism/critical thinking
No, I'm not talking about "Iron Justice," a guy who regularly posts to misc.health.alternative and seems obsessed with iron metabolism as the be-all and end-all of health and disease, with a particular affinity for iron overload as the cause of...
Posted by Orac at 8:46 AM • 22 Comments
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