November 30, 2006
Change of Shift
Category: Blog carnivals • Medicine
Change of Shift, the blog carnival for nursing, has been post at Fat Doctor....
Posted by Orac at 3:31 PM •
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Orac is the nom de blog of a humble pseudonymous surgeon/scientist with an ego just big enough to delude himself that someone, somewhere might actually give a rodent's posterior about his miscellaneous verbal meanderings, but just barely small enough to admit to himself that few will. (Continued here, along with a DISCLAIMER that you should read before reading any medical discussions here.)
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Psychotics prefer Bush?
Category: Politics • Pseudoscience • Skepticism/critical thinking
I have to take this opportunity to express a bit of disappointment in one of my fellow SB'ers. When I encounter a study that seems to confirm my biases, as a skeptic, I try very hard to be even more...
Posted by Orac at 1:20 PM • 28 Comments
Dawkins and eugenics revisited
Category: Bioethics • History • Holocaust • Medicine • Religion
When I wrote a post about how Richard Dawkins was being unjustly smeared as supporting Hitler-style eugenics by the religious blogosphere, I figured I might provoke some criticism, particularly since I didn't just stop there. No, in a bit of...
Posted by Orac at 9:01 AM • 18 Comments
November 29, 2006
Fisking the pompously ignorant
Category: Anti-Semitism • History • Holocaust • Holocaust denial
Andrew Mathis over at Flavor Country does it well. Indeed, his demolition of Holocaust deniers on Usenet on the newsgroup alt,revisionism undoubtedly had an influence on what later became my special brand of Respectful Insolenceâ„¢. So, sit back and enjoy...
Posted by Orac at 1:16 PM • 0 Comments
Yawn. More Choprawoo.
Category: Paranormal • Pseudoscience • Religion • Skepticism/critical thinking
I don't know about you, but I'm starting to get a bit bored with Deepak Chopra. He's like the Energizer Bunny of woo; he just keeps going and going and going and going. Unfortunately, one of his sycophants going under...
Posted by Orac at 8:31 AM • 14 Comments
A brief word on Michael Richards' racist tirade
Category: Entertainment/culture
I know I'm a bit late in on this one, and almost everyone's already commented on it. Obviously Richards' gratuitous use of the N-word was about as funny as a crutch, but Trey Ellis tells us why as he addresses...
Posted by Orac at 3:01 AM • 7 Comments
November 28, 2006
Grand Rounds
Category: Blog carnivals • Grand Rounds • Medicine
Grand Rounds, vol. 3, no. 10 has been posted at the blog of fellow skeptic Dr. R.W. Enjoy!...
Posted by Orac at 12:31 PM •
Homeopaths: Double-blind studies of homeopathic medicines are not ideally possible
Category: Alternative medicine • Medicine • Quackery • Skepticism/critical thinking
Remind me to mark April 10 down on my calendar. I never realized it was such an important day, and, in any case, I wouldn't want to miss it. Nor should the rest of the skeptical blogosphere. Why? It's World...
Posted by Orac at 8:46 AM • 49 Comments
November 27, 2006
The "Holocaust never happened but the Jews deserved it" subset of Holocaust denier
Category: Anti-Semitism • History • Holocaust • Holocaust denial
I've mentioned one particularly odious (well, more odious) subset of Holocaust deniers, a type that I call the "Holocaust never happened but the Jews deserve it" type of Holocaust denier. These Holocaust deniers claim that either the Holocaust never happened...
Posted by Orac at 2:03 PM • 24 Comments
Is Richard Dawkins endorsing eugenics?
Category: History • Holocaust • Medicine • Skepticism/critical thinking
With the internecine sniping that's been going on lately throughout ScienceBlogs ove Larry Moran's intemperate "flunk the IDiots" and "Neville Chamberlain school of evolutionists" remarks, or, more specifically, whether opposing ID requires that one oppose religion in general as well,...
Posted by Orac at 9:07 AM • 62 Comments
November 26, 2006
Finishing off the Thanksgiving Day weekend the YouTube way
Category: Humor • Television
I can't believe I forgot to post this on Thanksgiving Day itself, but I'll make up for it now. What better way to finish off the Thanksgiving Day weekend than with one of the funniest Thanksgiving Day promotions of all...
Posted by Orac at 3:06 PM • 3 Comments
Sunday afternoon YouTubes: The only way I can tolerate Journey
Category: Music
On this, the last day of the long holiday weekend that I've spent mostly holed up in my home office studying for my surgery boards recertification examination, I feel a bit too burned out to post anything much serious today,...
Posted by Orac at 1:16 PM • 1 Comments
The Angry Professor responds to a student
Category: Miscellaneous
If I taught a class in these days of professor evaluations depending so much on student evaluations, I'm not sure I'd have the guts to respond to a student's request to be excused so that he can go to a...
Posted by Orac at 10:50 AM • 23 Comments
November 25, 2006
Is rock 'n' roll stardom dangerous to your health?
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The PathGuy makes the case, with a large number of case studies of rock and pop stars who died at young ages. Unfortunately, there's no systematic epidemiological study that I'm aware of about whether rock 'n' roll stars have a...
Posted by Orac at 2:01 PM • 8 Comments
Something every surgeon should have: LifeStat
Here's something I've been meaning to post for a while that somehow got buried in my list of cool, weird, or interesting links. One of the things they teach surgeons and emergency medicine doctors about is how to use common...
Posted by Orac at 11:01 AM • 9 Comments
Has it really been a whole year?
Category: Alternative medicine • Autism • Blogging • Medicine • Quackery
One year ago today, I discovered a rather amusing bit of chicanery on the part of an old "friend," namely J. B. Handley, the proprietor of and driving force behind Generation Rescue, the group that claims that all autism (not...
Posted by Orac at 12:01 AM • 13 Comments
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