HIV/AIDS denialist Celia Farber on the death of Christine Maggiore: It was a "radical detox" regimen, not HIV
Category: Medicine
So which was it? "Radical detox" or untreated AIDS? Either way, woo kills.
Posted by Orac at 12:00 PM • 168 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)
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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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December 31, 2008
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em: Crash this poll
Category: Medicine
I know, I know, I've criticized P.Z. Myer's poll-crashing proclivities as being childish and pointless. However, so few people seem to agree with my take on it that I'm wondering whether, if I can't beat 'em I should join 'em....
Posted by Orac at 10:10 AM • 60 Comments •
I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy!
Category: Announcements
Now here's something that'll go to Orac's head (if, in fact, he actually had a head instead of a Plexiglass cube of blinking colored lights). He's been named by Rebecca Watson (a.k.a. The Skepchick) as one of the Top 10...
Posted by Orac at 8:00 AM • 13 Comments •
What does an anti-Semite look like...
Category: Anti-Semitism
...who needs a lot of practice still? I would say he might look like this. I still have to figure out what Zionist juice is, though....
Posted by Orac at 12:15 AM • 19 Comments •
December 30, 2008
HIV/AIDS denialist Christine Maggiore is dead
Category: Medicine
A delusion may have claimed yet another life.
Posted by Orac at 12:00 PM • 189 Comments •
Here's one for Dr. Egnor: Grand Rounds is about the interface of medicine and evolution!
Category: Announcements
Here's one for our favorite creationist neurosurgeon: A whole Grand Rounds all about the interface of and application to medicine of the theory of evolution....
Posted by Orac at 8:20 AM • 1 Comments •
When a single quote tells you all you need to know about a critic's reasoning ability
Category: Medicine
Last week, I gave everybody's favorite creationist neurosurgeon, Dr. Michael Egnor, the gift everyone loves to read but not to receive: the gift of not-so-Respectful Insolence. Christmas or no Christmas, he did ask for it, and far be it from...
Posted by Orac at 12:00 AM • 20 Comments •
December 29, 2008
Limiting physician trainees' work hours and unintended consequences
Category: Medicine
Limiting residents work hours seemed like such a good idea at the time.
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 62 Comments •
December 28, 2008
Lose, Lions, lose
Category: Sports
I rarely blog about sports, but I'll make an exception for today, given that football history is likely to be made later this afternoon. I'm not much of a football fan, at least not of professional football. These days, the...
Posted by Orac at 10:30 AM • 22 Comments •
December 27, 2008
Racist? Yes or no? Vote!
Category: Entertainment/culture
An oddly racist commercial, or just bizarre? You be the judge.
Posted by Orac at 10:01 AM • 42 Comments •
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