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Archives for December 3, 2007
Like the Phoenix, Peter Popoff rises from the ashes of his butt-kicking by James Randi
Posted by Orac on December 3, 2007 Depressing. One of the fakest faith-healers of all, Peter Popoff, who was so memorably exposed for a fraud by James Randi back in the 1980s when Randi caught him using a small radio receiver to be fed information on people he was “healing” from his wife, who was reading them off of prayer cards, is…
One last comment on the Dennis Lindberg case
Posted by Orac on December 3, 2007 I’ve been spending a bit of time discussing the sad case of Dennis Lindberg, a 14-year-old youth with leukemia who died because of his refusal to accept a blood transfusion when his hematocrit fell to life-threateningly low levels apparently during chemotherapy. My position is that, while competent adults have the right to refuse transfusion for…
Atheists and Jews and eugenics before World War II: Greg’s joking, right?
Posted by Orac on December 3, 2007 I’m always loathe to criticize a fellow ScienceBlogger, but, as the resident World War II buff and tireless debunker of Holocaust denial, I couldn’t let this one pass. While perusing the Last 24 Hours feed yesterday, I came across a most curious statement in a slapdown by Greg Laden of an attempt by Bruce Chapman…