The history of homeopathy in cartoon form
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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.)
Orac's old Blog is archived at Archived Insolence.
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June 30, 2010
More legal thuggery against a defender of science-based medicine
Category: Medicine
Doctor's Data tries to muzzle Dr. Stephen Barrett by suing him for libel to the tune of $10 million.
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 361 Comments •
Join a live web chat with Chicago Tribune reporter Trine Tsouderos
Category: Medicine
I wish it were otherwise, but not all that many reporters "get it" when it comes to science and quackery. Fortunately, Chicago Tribune reporter Trine Tsouderos does. She's shown it multiple times over the last year with stories about the...
Posted by Orac at 12:00 AM • 9 Comments •
June 29, 2010
How not to do "personalized medicine" to treat Alzheimer's disease
Category: Medicine
With the aging of the population, one of the most feared potential manners by which more and more of us will leave this earth is through Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia. And it is a scary thing, too....
Posted by Orac at 8:00 AM • 69 Comments •
June 28, 2010
How engaged should scientists be in policy?
Category: Medicine
I really hate this. I really hate having to take a friend to task, but he leaves me little choice. You see, I actually like Chris Mooney. Back in the day, I even even hoisted a pint with him at...
Posted by Orac at 10:30 AM • 123 Comments •
June 27, 2010
June 25, 2010
The way science is reported...
Category: Science
Many are the times when I've complained about how the press reports on science and medicine. I love it when science is reported well, but sadly such examples are far fewer than I'd like to see. In fact, there are...
Posted by Orac at 12:00 PM • 13 Comments •
Pumping autistic children full of an industrial chelator (revisited)
Category: Medicine
Remember Boyd Haley? He's the Professor and former Chairman of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Kentucky whose formerly respectable career tanked because he fell into pseudoscience. For whatever reason, a while back he became enamored first of...
Posted by Orac at 1:00 AM • 172 Comments •
June 24, 2010
Why there's no new logorrheic Insolence today...
Category: Computers
...is because I lucked out and my iPhone 4 arrived a day early. Gadget geek that I am, I couldn't resist taking the time I'd normally spend blogging last night to set it up the way I like it. Yes,...
Posted by Orac at 8:30 AM • 44 Comments •
June 23, 2010
Don't get sick in July? (Revisited)
Category: Medicine
Are hospitals more dangerous in July? Maybe.
Posted by Orac at 8:01 AM • 24 Comments •
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