The ghoul returns again to feast on the flesh of celebrities
Category: Medicine
He's back, bigger and crazier than ever, and he's abusing dead celebrities again to sell quackery.
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 42 Comments •
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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)
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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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June 29, 2009
Another call to help vaccinate Las Vegas!
Category: Medicine
Join the effort!
Posted by Orac at 4:00 PM • 7 Comments •
Are we playing it too safe in cancer research? (Oops, Orac missed one)
Category: Medicine
This is just a brief followup to my post this morning about yesterday's NYT article on cancer research. An excellent discussion of the NYT article can be found here (and is well worth reading in its entirety). In it, Jim...
Posted by Orac at 12:00 PM • 11 Comments •
Are we playing it too safe in cancer research?
Category: Medicine
Oh, noes! We've spent $100 billion on the War on Cancer? Were are teh curez?????
Posted by Orac at 8:00 AM • 12 Comments •
June 27, 2009
Taking the naturopathic option
Category: Medicine
Naturopathy: Choose!
Posted by Orac at 10:00 AM • 50 Comments •
June 26, 2009
Help vaccinate Las Vegas!
Category: Skepticism/critical thinking
JREF and vaccines. A most excellent combination.
Posted by Orac at 3:00 PM • 100 Comments •
Mike Adams brings home the crazy over, of all things, the Caduceus
Category: Medicine
I have a love-hate relationship with Mike Adams. Mike Adams, regular readers of this blog, is the "intellectual force" between that repository of quackery and sheer lunacy, NaturalNews.com. I hate him because he is a vile human being who cheerfully...
Posted by Orac at 10:00 AM • 33 Comments •
Farrah Fawcett: Dead of cancer at age 62
Category: Medicine
Unfortunately, I saw this coming, although I had thought that it might be a few more months. Farrah Fawcett has lost her three year battle with anal cancer: Farrah Fawcett, an actress and television star whose good looks and signature...
Posted by Orac at 12:00 AM • 24 Comments •
June 25, 2009
What's wrong with Steve Jobs: Yes, Jobs did have a liver transplant, but was it for metastatic insulinoma?
Category: Medicine
Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal reported that the reason for Apple CEO Steve Job's five month medical leave of absence from Apple is that he needed a liver transplant, which, according to the story, he underwent a couple...
Posted by Orac at 11:00 AM • 30 Comments •
Update: Daniel Hauser must continue chemotherapy
Category: Medicine
The other day, I came across an update on the Daniel Hauser saga. Specifically, I commented about how he is not only undergoing the chemotherapy ordered by his doctors. As you may recall, Hauser is a 13-year-old boy who, after...
Posted by Orac at 12:00 AM • 37 Comments •
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