"I'll be back"...for your love!
Category: Music
What happens when you cross Terminators with power balladry? Geek awesomeness, that's what.
Posted by Orac at 10:00 AM • 4 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.)
Orac's old Blog is archived at Archived Insolence.
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- "Obama's fixin' death panels for your mama": The USPSTF recommendations for mammography used as a political weapon
- "Obama's fixin' death panels for your mama," the misogyny gambit, and other idiotic responses to the updated USPSTF mammography recommendations
- Really rethinking breast cancer screening
- A dose of H1N1 flu anti-woo
- Bill Maher flames out in a pyre of stupidity over vaccines--again
- Submit! Submit to the Skeptics' Circle
- Cancer prevention drugs, supplements, and a false dichotomy
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- Hmmm. Maybe I fell for Obama's liberofascist plot to poison me...
- Your Friday Dose of Woo: There's no woo like laser woo
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May 31, 2009
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Cancer research explained briefly
Category: Medicine
Don't say "cure for cancer." Say "cures for cancers." Don't say "war on cancer." Say "wars on cancers."
Posted by Orac at 10:30 AM • 49 Comments •
Next week: The 112th Meeting of the Skeptics' Circle
Category: Announcements
I've been a bit remiss in not mentioning that everybody's favorite blog carnival (well, at least my favorite blog carnival), the Skeptics' Circle, is fast approaching. This time around, it'll be hosted by Cheshire, who has helpfully provided a reminder...
Posted by Orac at 12:00 AM • 0 Comments •
May 29, 2009
Combatting the Oprah Effect
Category: Entertainment/culture
The Oprah Effect versus science, medicine, and critical thinking. Science doesn't stand a chance.
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 80 Comments •
May 28, 2009
Milk: It'll do a body good! For cancer?
Category: Medicine
Step right up and get your milk! Human breast milk, that is. It cures cancer, you know. Or so thinks Tim Browne.
Posted by Orac at 2:00 PM • 63 Comments •
Daniel Hauser, fundraising, and "health freedom"
Category: Medicine
An appeal for money to pay for woo for cancer. And legal fees.
Posted by Orac at 6:00 AM • 35 Comments •
May 27, 2009
The anti-vaccine movement: Is it too late for scientists to bridge the gap between evidence and fear?
Category: Medicine
Is there a strategy for scientists to displace Jenny McCarthy as the chief provider of vaccine information?
Posted by Orac at 4:00 AM • 201 Comments •
May 26, 2009
One more time: Vaccine refusal endangers children
Category: Medicine
Don't vaccinate against pertussis, and increase your child's risk of pertussis 23-fold.
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 209 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Good news for Daniel Hauser!
Category: Medicine
Daniel's back in Minnesota, and now he has a chance at life.
Posted by Orac at 12:00 AM • 63 Comments •
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