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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.
November 30, 2007
Category: Announcements
I would be remiss in my duties as organizer of the Skeptics' Circle if I were to forget to remind you that it won't be long before the next Skeptics' Circle comes around the pike. Indeed, the next meeting of...
Posted by Orac at 3:15 PM • •
Category: Friday Woo
I don't know what it is about woo-meisters and vibration. I know I've said this before, but it seems to come up so often that I can't help but repeat it. Everything is vibration. Everything. And if it' not...
Posted by Orac at 10:01 AM • 20 Comments •
Category: Religion
I haven't said much about Gillian Gibbons, the unfortunate schoolteacher from Britain who fell afoul of religious fundamentalism in Sudan when she did a class exercise in which her class picked a name for a Teddy Bear. Unfortunately, the name...
Posted by Orac at 9:01 AM • 33 Comments •
Category: Evolution
Sometimes I have a hard time not concluding that we are....
Posted by Orac at 8:15 AM • 23 Comments •
Category: Medicine
It looks as though the Jehovah's Witnesses have claimed another life. This time, though, it wasn't an adult, as it was recently. This time, though, through the indoctrination inherent in the Jehovah's Witness religion and, incredibly and inexcusably, the acquiescence...
Posted by Orac at 1:23 AM • 28 Comments •
November 29, 2007
Category: Biology
Heard on the radio this morning, a commenter responding to a radio talk show host's pointing out to him that Mike Huckabee doesn't accept evolution as valid. This is as close as I can remember what he said, but the...
Posted by Orac at 4:07 PM • 59 Comments •
Category: Blogging
...for reaching a milestone in blogging. One thing that's always puzzled me is why Abel's traffic isn't much higher (and mine lower, to be honest). True, I post much more frequently than he does, but that alone doesn't explain it....
Posted by Orac at 12:08 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Medicine
We've had one example this week of people with minds so open that their brains fell out at the Oxford Union, which invited Holocaust denier and British National Party leader Nick Griffin to "discuss free speech." Now, sadly, I see...
Posted by Orac at 8:55 AM • 22 Comments •
November 28, 2007
Category: History
Max Hastings apparently disagrees with the disgust that I and many others expressed over Holocaust denier David Irving's recent appearance at the Oxford Union. I'd almost agree with him, except that (1) I highly doubt, from reading the accounts, that...
Posted by Orac at 2:20 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: Surgery
You've probably heard the oft-repeated charge of "alternative" medicine advocates. If you get into a debate or conversation with one, you can almost count on seeing or hearing it before too long. Indeed, we heard a variant of this very...
Posted by Orac at 8:56 AM • 13 Comments •
