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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.
February 29, 2008
Category: Medicine
Earlier today I was perusing incoming links. (Yes, most bloggers do that because we like to know who's linking to us; any blogger who doesn't do this from time to time is atypical or lying about it.) What to my...
Posted by Orac at 3:45 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Medicine
Orac observes a late night colon-cleansing smackdown involving a John Waters look-alike.
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 22 Comments •
February 28, 2008
Category: Blog carnivals
This year's a Leap Year, as it so happens, and it turns out that Leap Day is tomorrow. Unfortunately for "alternative medicine" mavens, conspiracy theorists, and lovers of woo everywhere, that means that the Skeptical Conspiracy to Suppress All Dissent--I...
Posted by Orac at 3:41 PM • •
Category: Medicine
In the two days since I first mentioned an attempted home invasion of a researcher at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) by bandana-masked animal rights terrorists, there have been new developments worth posting an update here. First, last...
Posted by Orac at 12:31 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: Antivaccination lunacy
Vaccines go from the cause of an "autism tsunami" to an aggravating factor in a single child with a rare mitochondrial disorder. Maybe. And those who believe that vaccines cause autism think this vindicates them?
Posted by Orac at 8:46 AM • 37 Comments •
February 27, 2008
Category: Medicine
In case you haven't heard it enough on this blog and elsewhere: Antivaccination lunacy has consquences. In the UK, measles cases have jumped to a record high: The number of measles cases in England and Wales jumped more than 30%...
Posted by Orac at 3:01 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: Computers
...two words: Killer robots! Clearly, we're all doomed. Skynet, here we come!...
Posted by Orac at 12:00 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Medicine
Should men watch out for the dreaded cell phone if they want to have children?
Posted by Orac at 8:30 AM • 10 Comments •
February 26, 2008
Category: Medicine
...and this time it's a home invasion. Thank heaven that this time the activists were once again the gang that couldn't shoot straight.
Posted by Orac at 11:00 AM • 23 Comments •
Category: Medicine
I've come to hate the word "holistic." In its original usage, it may have had a real meaning, but the woo-meisters have twisted and deformed it to the point where, whenever you see the word "holistic" being applied to a medical issue or treatment, nine times out of ten you'll get the true correct meaning by substituting the word "quackery."
Posted by Orac at 8:40 AM • 23 Comments •
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