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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.
May 31, 2008
Category: History
Ever since it appeared as an "adult" spinoff of Doctor Who, I've had a love-hate relationship with Torchwood. The first season was about as uneven as anything I've ever seen, ranging from a truly execrable (and, even worse, unforgivably stupidly...
Posted by Orac at 10:00 AM • 13 Comments •
May 30, 2008
Category: Blog carnivals
In a couple of hours, I'll be en route to my favorite city in the world, a place where, although I lived there for but a brief three years, I felt completely at home. Chicago, baby! Yes, I'm on the...
Posted by Orac at 5:00 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Medicine
"Molecular communications" + radio waves + electricity = woo.
Posted by Orac at 8:47 AM • 13 Comments •
May 29, 2008
Category: Medicine
As many who take an interest in this subject know, one of the most common arguments that advocates of various medical woo often make is the appeal to ancient wisdom. They seem to think that if a treatment is old...
Posted by Orac at 2:52 PM • 22 Comments •
Category: Medicine
The first in an occasional series in which Orac answers common accusations leveled against physicians who fight the good fight against pseudoscience and quackery.
Posted by Orac at 9:08 AM • 69 Comments •
May 28, 2008
Category: Science
A simple guide to identifying pseudoscience or nonscience.
Posted by Orac at 3:50 PM • 16 Comments •
Category: Medicine
Woo at Stanford University: Therapeutic touch, or touched in the head?
Posted by Orac at 10:00 AM • 10 Comments •
Category: Medicine
Who knew that creationists like Ben Stein and antivaccinationists actually have something in common?
Posted by Orac at 12:00 AM • 32 Comments •
May 27, 2008
Category: Medicine
As a physician and scientists who's dedicated his life to the application of science to the development of better medical treatments, I've often wondered how formerly admired scientists and physicians degenerate into out-and-out cranks. I'm talking about people like Peter...
Posted by Orac at 8:51 AM • 75 Comments •
May 26, 2008
Category: History
Today is once again Memorial Day. On this day in the past I have posted photo montages of, for example, the World War II Memorial in Washington, DC and link roundups, as I did last year. This year, I...
Posted by Orac at 10:00 AM • 17 Comments •
