Beth Israel joins the Academic Woo Aggregator!
Category: Medicine
When wealthy woo fans attack an academic hospital, no patient is safe.
Posted by Orac at 10:00 AM • 18 Comments •
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 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.)
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October 31, 2008
Is the earth still circling the sun?
Category: Medicine
When something this startling happens and an unexpected source makes more medical sense than you do, you're in deep doo.
Posted by Orac at 12:46 AM • 14 Comments •
October 30, 2008
Another one bites the dust; Clinical trial for prostate cancer prevention by selenium and vitamin E halted
Category: Medicine
A trial stopped. But why?
Posted by Orac at 10:00 AM • 33 Comments •
In a surprising twist today...
Category: Politics
Oh, the suspense!
Posted by Orac at 1:00 AM • 7 Comments •
October 29, 2008
David Kirby admits that mercury in vaccines is no longer "the smoking gun"
Category: Medicine
Longtime readers of this blog know that my original exposure to antivaccination conspiracy theories first occurred in the context of the now pseudoscientific and discredited hypothesis that somehow the mercury in the thimerosal preservative that used to be used in...
Posted by Orac at 10:00 AM • 20 Comments •
October 28, 2008
The white supremacist plot to kill Barack Obama: I'm surprised something like this didn't happen before
Category: History
A botched plot to assassinate Barack Obama shines a light on the white supremacist underworld in the U.S.
Posted by Orac at 4:00 PM • 80 Comments •
Using placebos outside of clinical trials
Category: Medicine
How many physicians prescribe placebos? If a recent study is any indication, more than you think.
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 21 Comments •
October 27, 2008
My alma mater fights back against misinformation about embryonic stem cell research
Category: Politics
The University of Michigan isn't going to take the lies anymore.
Posted by Orac at 1:08 PM • 6 Comments •
Fundamentalist religion, misinformation, and the controversy over embryonic stem cell research in Michigan
Category: Medicine
Fundamentalist religion versus science. Again. Unfortunately, fundamentalist religion appears to be winning.
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 13 Comments •
October 26, 2008
Best Doctor Who adventure ever?
Category: Entertainment/culture
Best. Doctor. Who. Ever.
Posted by Orac at 10:27 AM • 12 Comments •
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