Ever wonder what you could do with the hole in CDs?
Category: Humor
Well, now you know....
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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)
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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.)
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June 30, 2007
Bad covers
Category: Entertainment/culture
In keeping my (temporary), retreat from medical blogging for the weekend, I thought you might enjoy as much as I did this list of the 100 Worst Cover Songs. I do have a few objections, though. For one thing, I...
Posted by Orac at 9:31 AM • 8 Comments •
June 29, 2007
I poured a death potion for my sick baby!
Category: Medicine
I love these old ads. Remember, keep fresh batteries in your house or you might poison your baby! The tag line sounds almost like the reaction of an antivaccination loon to the polio vaccine....
Posted by Orac at 3:08 PM • 11 Comments •
The "just another study" gambit
Category: Medicine
I wrote about this classic crank gambit a bit about a week and a half ago, emphasizing that no amount of studies will convince a crank. Now, MarkH at denialism.com takes on the same issue in more detail so that...
Posted by Orac at 12:31 PM • 1 Comments •
Your Friday Dose of Woo: Your interactive quantum gyroscopic homeopathic DNA activating....
Category: Friday Woo
Here's something I've wanted to try for a while now. It'll either be wildly successful and popular, along the lines of You Might Be an Altie If..., or it'll be an utter failure, sinking into oblivion. Which one it ends...
Posted by Orac at 9:01 AM • 27 Comments •
June 28, 2007
More on the Generation Rescue poll
Category: Medicine
Yesterday, I did a deconstruction of Generation Rescue's dubious "study" (in reality an automated telephone poll) that claims to show that vaccines increase the rate of autism and other "neurologic diseases." Now skeptical blogger extraordinaire Prometheus has posted his own...
Posted by Orac at 6:01 PM • 6 Comments •
Deepak Chopra's woo-ful whine
Category: Medicine
Pity poor Deepak Chopra. I've abused him on this blog many times, even coining a word ("Choprawoo") for the silliness that emanates from his keyboard every time he posts his inanity to the Huffington Post or his own IntentBlog. I...
Posted by Orac at 3:02 PM • 19 Comments •
David Kirby's Osama bin Laden vaccine gambit, revisited
Category: Medicine
Remember a couple of weeks ago, when I wrote about how mercury militia buddy David Kirby invoked the Osama bin Laden gambit in discussing the Autism Omnibus trial? I wondered where Kirby's claim came from and what vaccine components were "derived from pigs," as did a number of you. Now I know, thanks to a reader.
Posted by Orac at 9:01 AM • 11 Comments •
Poor Behe, now he's in for it
Category: Skepticism/critical thinking
You may have noticed that I haven't commented much on Michael Behe's recent book, The Edge of Evolution, other than to bemoan its presence in the Evolution section of the University of Chicago Barnes & Noble. I have, however, read...
Posted by Orac at 4:30 AM • 6 Comments •
June 27, 2007
Am I an old blogger?
Category: Blogging
It was with sadness that I saw fellow medical blogger Dr. Charles' announcement that he is taking a break ("perhaps a long break," as he puts it) from blogging. He points out that he's been at it for almost three...
Posted by Orac at 11:01 PM • •
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