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Respectful Insolence

"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)

Who (or what) is Orac?

orac.jpg 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.



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June 30, 2008

Now there's a Presidential candidate for this age!

Category: Humor

I realize my post earlier today was a bit of a downer, but what can I say? Lately, there doesn't seem to be much good news on the ever-growing front in the war against quackery. However, in researching that piece...

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Science is irrelevant. Resistance is futile.

Category: Medicine

Science is irrelevant. Resistance is futile. Your culture will adapt to service CAM.

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June 29, 2008

Up from Down Under: The Skeptics' Circle is on its way

Category: Announcements

Lest I forget my obligations here, I have to post a reminder that the 90th Edition of the Skeptics' Circle is fast approaching and will be here on Thursday, July 3. In fact, because it's being hosted by prominent Australian...

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Say it ain't so, Sid!

Category: Medicine

Surgeonsblog turns out the lights.

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June 28, 2008

A chiropractor for President?

Category: Medicine

Apparently there's a chiropracter named Billy Sticker running for President. His platform: My platform: To increase your patient count by 200% during my first term To increase your income by 200% Pass legislation designating Chiropractic the Official Health Care of America Reduce our dependency on...

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June 27, 2008

I can't wait until Saturday night...

Category: Television

...or maybe Sunday morning, as I don't know how long it will take to get this by BitTorrent, the penultimate episode of series 4 of Doctor Who (if you're a Doctor Who fan and haven't seen the last couple of...

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Your Friday Dose of Woo: Generation woo

Category: Medicine

Before there was angry, "warrior mom" antivaccinationist Jenny, there was the kindler, gentler Indigo Jenny.

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June 26, 2008

How scientific medicine lost the linguistic high ground to woo--excuse me, I mean "integrative" medicine

Category: Medicine

A few months ago, I wrote a post lamenting how science- and evidence-based medicine has lost the linguistic high ground to the woo peddlers, those who have "rebranded" quackery first into "alternative" medicine, then into "complementary and alternative medicine" (CAM),...

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Time to get out the paper bag or Doctor Doom mask again...

Category: Medicine

...because that dualism-loving, 'intelligent design" apologist neurosurgeon who just doesn't know when to quit, Dr. Michael Egnor, is back to embarrass me again.

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"The Autism Myth Lives On"

Category: Medicine

It's rare that the mainstream media gets it right about vaccines and autism, and when they do I feel obligated to point it out. Such is the case with Sam Wang's article The Autism Myth Lives On. It's well worth...

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