Change of Shift
Category: Blog carnivals
Change of Shift, the blog carnival for nursing, has been post at Fat Doctor....
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Respectful Insolence
"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, pseudoscience, history, and pseudohistory (and anything else that interests him)
Who (or what) is Orac?
Orac is the nom de blog of a (not so) 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.)
Orac's old Blog is archived at Archived Insolence.
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- A study that oversells massage therapy
- An uncomfortable question
- Yes, Virginia, there is an antivaccine movement (efforts to deny it notwithstanding)
- An animal rights zealot faces her comeuppance
- The vilest antivaccine lie that won't die: Shaken baby syndrome as "vaccine injury"
- "Energy chelation" therapy: Scientific criticism meets common tropes of CAM apologists
- Placebo effects are "proof" that God exists?
- Microsoft, Merck, and Bill Gates: Eugenicists?
- Joe Mercola: Proof positive that quackery sells
- Goodbye and good riddance to organized quackery's best friend in Congress
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- Thomas on What Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski doesn't want you to know about antineoplastons
- Thomas on Still more evidence that Morgellons disease is most likely delusional parasitosis, 2012 edition
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November 30, 2006
Psychotics prefer Bush?
Category: Politics
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: 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: 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 Insolence™. So, sit back and enjoy...
Posted by Orac at 1:16 PM • •
Yawn. More Choprawoo.
Category: 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: Grand Rounds
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
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: 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: 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 •
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