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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)
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.
October 31, 2009
Category: Blog carnivals
It's almost here, and it's almost time! The 123rd Meeting of the Skeptics' Circle is fast approaching. This time around it will be here on Thursday, November 5. That means skeptical bloggers out there don't have much time to get...
Posted by Orac at 3:00 PM • 5 Comments •
October 30, 2009
Category: Medicine
The little matter of finding out that the actor who played Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation appears to have anti-vaccine proclivities sidetracked me from something that I had actually wanted to blog about yesterday. Specifically, it's something that...
Posted by Orac at 7:00 AM • 540 Comments •
October 29, 2009
Category: Entertainment/culture
Say it ain't so, Data! Say you don't think that Dr. Jay Gordon knows what he's talking about when it comes to vaccines!
Posted by Orac at 12:00 AM • 312 Comments •
October 28, 2009
Category: Medicine
Not long ago, I wrote a post warning about how funding for non-science-based modalities and, indeed, modalities that are purely religion-based, have found their way into various versions of health care reform bills that are currently wending their way through...
Posted by Orac at 3:00 PM • 18 Comments •
Category: Skepticism/critical thinking
Wow. Just wow.
Posted by Orac at 8:30 AM • 96 Comments •
October 27, 2009
Category: Medicine
The title speaks for itself.
Posted by Orac at 10:00 AM • 41 Comments •
Category: Skepticism/critical thinking
I was going to join PZ Myers, ERV, and Pamela Ronald in helping out an old blogging friend and former host of the Skeptics' Circle, Karl Mogel of The Inoculated Mind by pimping his other science-based blog Biofortified, which seeks...
Posted by Orac at 12:00 AM • 25 Comments •
October 26, 2009
Category: Blog carnivals
I really have to apologize to the Young Australian Skeptics. I screwed up. I didn't do my duty as organizer of The Skeptics' Circle. The Aussies provided a bang-up edition of the 122nd Meeting of the Skeptics' Circle, and I...
Posted by Orac at 12:00 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Medicine
The Atlantic, a magazine I've subscribed to for over 25 years, may have just lost itself a subscriber over its coverage of the H1N1 influenza pandemic.
Posted by Orac at 6:00 AM • 139 Comments •
