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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.jpg 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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November 30, 2009

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Category: Announcements

Well, now. With the long four day weekend that many of us here in the U.S. have enjoyed finally over, it's time to get back to serious business. Serious, but fun. I'm referring to the upcoming 125th Meeting of the...

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The Institute for Science in Medicine issues a warning about the hijacking of health care reform by pseudoscience and religion

Category: Medicine

A new Institute stands up for science-based medicine in the health care reform debate.

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The "vindication of all kooks" corollary to the principle of crank magnetism

Category: History

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. The problem is, the enemy is science itself.

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November 28, 2009

Update on "coma man" Rom Houben: Dr. Steven Laureys still just doesn't get it

Category: Medicine

Dr. Steven Laureys, the man who used Rom Houben as the human face of his research about how often comatose patients are misdiagnosed, still doesn't get that he's been fooled by facilitated communication.

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November 27, 2009

Your Friday Dose of Woo: The physics of homeopathy and "nanocrystalloids"

Category: Friday Woo

Star Trek-grade technobabble as a justification for homeopathy.

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November 26, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving

Category: Music

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November 25, 2009

How to respond to annoying reviewers...

Category: Medicine

Bad reviews can be the downfall of a scientific manuscript...

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Another contender for the worst medical reporting ever: "Coma man"

Category: Medicine

The cruel woo that is facilitated communication strikes again.

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November 24, 2009

The anti-vaccine "biomed" movement: Hijacking legitimate scientific research

Category: Medicine

As hard as I find it to believe, the fifth anniversary of this blog is fast approaching. When I started this whole endeavor, it was more or less on a whim that struck me on a cold, dreary, gray Saturday...

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November 23, 2009

Desiree Jennings: Worst reporting ever?

Category: Medicine

I hate to revisit this case again. However, some of my readers have sent me links to something that compels me to dig up the rotting corpse of Generation Rescue's despicable attempt to use the suffering of a troubled young...

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