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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.
August 31, 2008
Category: Friday Woo
In which a two-time winner of Your Friday Dose of Woo explains himself--with music!
Posted by Orac at 10:00 AM • 10 Comments •
August 30, 2008
Category: Religion
Jack Chick is old. After many years of turning out the most hilariously over-the-top Christian fundamentalist cartoons, you may think he's lost his edge, but if anything he seems to be getting even loonier. For example, check out his latest...
Posted by Orac at 12:00 PM • 55 Comments •
Category: Religion
Having grown up in an American league town east of the Mississippi, as a baseball fan it is my sacred duty to hate the Yankees. This is even more so given how badly my hometown team (the Detroit Tigers) and...
Posted by Orac at 9:30 AM • 23 Comments •
August 29, 2008
Category: Medicine
I hesitated about whether to post this, knowing how many antivaccine activists read this blog, which is why I didn't post it yesterday. Still, I think this might be of sufficient interest to my readers that I thought I'd announce...
Posted by Orac at 1:28 PM • 18 Comments •
Category: Medicine
The single most necessary task for a physician practicing science- and evidence-based medicine is the evaluation of the biomedical literature to extract from it just what science and the evidence support as the best medical therapy for a given situation....
Posted by Orac at 9:15 AM • 13 Comments •
August 28, 2008
Category: Medicine
A reader of this blog was outed by a moron posting as "Mark" on the Age of Autism blog. I will not link to the outing, nor will I link to Age of Autism. I have, however, kept a nice...
Posted by Orac at 6:00 PM • 96 Comments •
Category: Announcements
I lamented how much I needed it, given the persistence of a couple of particularly annoying and obtuse antivaccinationist trolls over the last couple of weeks. Finally, it's here! We're talking the 94th Meeting of the Skeptics' Circle over at...
Posted by Orac at 2:08 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Medicine
How on earth do studies like this get funded?
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 29 Comments •
August 27, 2008
Category: Announcements
...and contribute to the next edition of SurgeXperience, the blog carnival that's all about surgery. The next host, Dr. Cris Cuthbertson is interested in surgical research and, in addition to good posts about surgery, is looking especially for good posts...
Posted by Orac at 5:13 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Medicine
It's not just the U.S. This time it's Canada, and it's actually not Jenny McCarthy's fault. This time, blame fundamentalist religion.
Posted by Orac at 12:41 PM • 201 Comments •
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