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"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)
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.
May 31, 2007
Category: Holocaust
Via Ed Brayton, I've learned of an interesting commentary by Sasha Abramsky on a topic that's near and dear to my heart. Well, its' more like a major pet peeve, one that irritates me so much that two years ago...
Posted by Orac at 1:31 PM • 16 Comments •
Category: Medicine
I've been a bit remiss when it comes to writing about the lunacy in which it is claimed that vaccines cause autism, allegedly due to the mercury in the thimerosal preservative that was in most childhood vaccines until the end...
Posted by Orac at 8:01 AM • 16 Comments •
May 30, 2007
Category: Humor
Here it is, straight from the 365 Stupidest Things Ever Said calendar, culled from a church bulletin listing: Our youth basketball team is back in action Wednesday at 8 PM in the recreation hall. Come out and watch us kill...
Posted by Orac at 4:16 PM • 16 Comments •
Category: Medicine
I love it. You see I noticed an old "friend," the Herbinator, making this comment about me regarding dichloroacetate: I was listening to CBC Radio - the Current, as is my want, and there was a show on about DCA,...
Posted by Orac at 10:01 AM • 12 Comments •
Category: Medicine
Last fall, I and quite a few other bloggers wrote about the Tripoli Six. These are six foreign medical workers arrested for allegedly intentionally infecting over 400 children with HIV in a Libyan hospital and, thanks to the ignorant hysteria...
Posted by Orac at 12:03 AM • 3 Comments •
May 29, 2007
"Some people call me Maurice." Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae A study from two Australian researchers from the University of Sydney shows that male humpbacks who sing while migrating have better luck with the ladies than those who don't.Michael Noad and...
Posted by Orac at 4:39 PM • •
Category: History
This is not free speech; it's vandalism: ORCAS ISLAND, Wash. -- Vandals burned dozens of small American flags that decorated veterans' graves for Memorial Day and replaced many of them with hand-drawn swastikas, authorities said Monday. Forty-six flag standards were...
Posted by Orac at 4:05 PM • 17 Comments •
Category: Religion
A new Gallup poll shows just how bad things are for science and reason: PRINCETON, NJ -- About one-third of the American adult population believes the Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally word...
Posted by Orac at 1:31 PM • 39 Comments •
Category: Medicine
It never seems to end, does it? I'm talking about the hype and questionable practices revolving around dichloroacetate (DCA), the small molecule chemotherapeutic agent that targets the Warburg effect, in essence normalizing the metabolism of tumor cells and thereby inhibiting...
Posted by Orac at 9:23 AM • 11 Comments •
May 28, 2007
Category: World War II
I didn't see this one in time to include it on my list of Memorial Day links. In it, Brett confesses: Here's a confession: I don't really get Guernica -- the painting, that is, not the event. Read the whole...
Posted by Orac at 4:01 PM • 10 Comments •
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