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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.
December 31, 2007
Category: Medicine
What better way to finish off 2007 than to look at a most amusing judicial ruling on the admissibility of some of the favorite "expert" witnesses trotted out to try to demonstrate a link between mercury in vaccines and autism....
Posted by Orac at 10:04 AM • 14 Comments •
Category: Entertainment/culture
Given the way that he's so successfully resurrected Doctor Who, I had come to believe that Russell T. Davies could do no wrong. I guess I was wrong: The Daily Post is reporting that comments made by Executive Producer Russell...
Posted by Orac at 6:20 AM • 19 Comments •
Category: Announcements
...from submitting to the Skeptics' Circle! Our latest host, Pal MD at White Coat Underground, has sent up the emergency flare. With a mere three days to go, he's worried that he won't have enough submissions to his Skeptics' Circle...
Posted by Orac at 12:06 AM • •
December 30, 2007
Category: Entertainment/culture
If you think spending the holidays with your family is stressful, imagine what it might be like for the Doctor: By the way, I've managed to check out the Doctor Who Christmas Special. By and large it's pretty good; maybe...
Posted by Orac at 2:07 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: History
The other day, I posted about how quacks and pseudoscientists seem to find Ron Paul's promise of "health freedom" as irresistible as moths do flame. Now it seems that Ron Paul has another most excellent endorsement to add to that...
Posted by Orac at 9:04 AM • 32 Comments •
December 29, 2007
Category: Medicine
As if Jenny McCarthy weren't enough stupidity in pushing the alleged "link" between vaccines and autism, it looks as though Donald Trump has joined the fray on the side of pseudoscience: In an interview with Palm Beach Politics, Donald Trump...
Posted by Orac at 10:55 AM • 41 Comments •
Category: Friday Woo
...I find it rather amazing that after all these months I'm still getting a steady, constant stream of traffic, probably at least a couple of dozen visits a day, to this old post from Your Friday Dose of Woo, all...
Posted by Orac at 6:13 AM • 7 Comments •
December 28, 2007
Category: History
Over at A Blog Around the Clock, the mother of fellow ScienceBlogger Bora's is guest blogging. I mention this because she's blogging about a trip to Israel she took in November to attend a conference of Holocaust Child Survivors. I...
Posted by Orac at 2:18 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Medicine
Lately, bloggers, including some of my fellow ScienceBloggers, have been expressing various concerns about the phenomenon that is Ron Paul, the Republican candidate who's ridden a wave of discontent to do surprisingly well in the polls leading up to the...
Posted by Orac at 8:45 AM • 63 Comments •
Category: Friday Woo
Orac's circuits have yet to recover from the assault on his logic circuits caused by the über-woo of a couple of weeks ago, coupled with the even more powerful woo two weeks before that. Consequently, in order to marshal additional...
Posted by Orac at 6:09 AM • 1 Comments •
