"A Dose of Controversy": More like a dose of equivocation
Category: Entertainment/culture
"Tell both sides" about vaccine pseudoscience strikes again.
Posted by Orac at 8:30 AM • 258 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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August 31, 2009
August 30, 2009
Sedalia, Missouri, you should be ashamed of your schools, or: The dumbest anti-evolution victory I've ever seen...
Category: Skepticism/critical thinking
Stupidity of this magnitude could induce a black hole of stupid that sucks all intelligence out of the galaxy.
Posted by Orac at 10:30 AM • 116 Comments •
August 29, 2009
Comic books and rubber bands...
Category: Entertainment/culture
Posted by Orac at 10:00 AM • 18 Comments •
August 28, 2009
The SickKids Foundation supports woo
Category: Medicine
The SickKids Foundation responds to complaints about its funding an autism/antivax quackfest. Its response leaves a lot to be desired.
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 86 Comments •
August 27, 2009
Scientists are only two years from developing a cure for breast cancer?
Category: Medicine
Good science reported badly, or why one should emulate Judah Folkman.
Posted by Orac at 11:00 AM • 31 Comments •
Matt Lauer to look at the vaccine-autism "debate"? Oh, goody.
Category: Medicine
NBC and Matt Lauer look at the anti-vaccine movement. Uh-oh.
Posted by Orac at 12:00 AM • 182 Comments •
August 26, 2009
In which Orac defends Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum...
Category: Medicine
I realize that I'm possibly stepping into proverbial lion's den with this one, but a man's got to do what a man's got to do. As you may recall, former ScienceBlogs bloggers Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum (and current Discover...
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 103 Comments •
Grand Rounds, Old School Style, courtesy of Dr. Charles...
Category: Blog carnivals
Posted by Orac at 12:00 AM • 0 Comments •
August 25, 2009
Autism quackery at the University of Toronto? Say it ain't so!
Category: Medicine
Autism "biomed" invades the University of Toronto. I wonder if Larry Moran knows about this.
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 63 Comments •
August 24, 2009
It's so cute when anti-vaxers try to discuss epidemiology...
Category: Medicine
Look, an anti-vaccinationist is trying to lecture scientists on epidemiology!
Posted by Orac at 3:00 PM • 36 Comments •
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