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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.
May 31, 2010
Category: Blog housekeeping
Today is a holiday in the U.S., Memorial Day. This is a day when we remember our war dead, but the three day weekend that accompanies the last Monday in May is also viewed as the unofficial start of summer....
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 73 Comments •
May 29, 2010
Category: Skepticism/critical thinking
Damn! I knew I made my promise to myself not to write about vaccines again for at least a few days too soon! Whenever I do that, it seems, one of two things happens. Either something important happens that, having...
Posted by Orac at 10:00 AM • 63 Comments •
May 28, 2010
Category: Medicine
The week is coming to a close, and the Memorial Day holiday beckons for those of us in the U.S. I've spent most of this week blogging about the anti-vaccine movement, and I do need a rest. Next week, I...
Posted by Orac at 3:00 PM • 185 Comments •
Category: Medicine
After a week of some of the most amazing anti-vaccine craziness that I've seen in quite a while, a week that started with anti-vaccine hero Andrew Wakefield's name being struck off the list of licensed medical practitioners in the U.K....
Posted by Orac at 3:30 AM • 161 Comments •
May 27, 2010
Category: Medicine
A bit of yellow in your drink?
Posted by Orac at 8:00 PM • 40 Comments •
Category: Skepticism/critical thinking
I don't mean to beat up on Dr. Michael Fitzpatrick. I really don't. I realize I rather harshly criticized him yesterday for being so hostile to the concept of "denialism," to the point where he characterized even the use of...
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 75 Comments •
May 26, 2010
Category: Politics
I love it when cranks write petitions. They're hilarious. Usually, they're oh-so-serious and ominous, sprinkled with unintentionally, un-self-aware bits of pure comic gold. For example, check out this "petition" being circulated by the anti-vaccine activists, called The Chicago Principles on...
Posted by Orac at 2:00 PM • 190 Comments •
Category: Medicine
As I've pointed out numerous times this week, anti-vaccine loons, led by Generation Rescue and a "health freedom" group, have organized an anti-vaccine rally in Grant Park in Chicago from 3 PM to 5 PM CDT. Anti-vaccine martyr Andrew Wakefield...
Posted by Orac at 10:20 AM • 52 Comments •
Category: Medicine
I've had a lot of fun thus far this week expressing more than a bit of schadenfreude over Andrew Wakefield's being ignominiously stripped of his medical license in the U.K. by the General Medical Council, not to mention pointing out...
Posted by Orac at 8:00 AM • 41 Comments •
May 25, 2010
Category: Antivaccination lunacy
It figures. I've written a couple of times about a rally to be held tomorrow in Grant Park that would be hilarious were it not an indication of the threat to public health that the anti-vaccine movement represents. Actually, it...
Posted by Orac at 3:00 PM • 53 Comments •
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