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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.
August 31, 2010
Category: Medicine
I love it when my fans notice me. After all, of what use is my having taken so many hours over so many years laying down on a nearly daily basis if my words don't have an impact? Surely I...
Posted by Orac at 8:00 AM • 99 Comments •
August 30, 2010
Category: Medicine
A frequent lament of members of the anti-vaccine movement is that they are not "anti-vaccine" but rather "pro-safe vaccine." they like to claim that they are not opposed to vaccines in general. Of course, in many, if not most or...
Posted by Orac at 8:00 AM • 69 Comments •
August 29, 2010
Category: Entertainment/culture
A friend of mine sent me a link to one of my hometown news stations because he saw something that irritated him. On the front page, there is a poll of such epic burning stupid that it requires an immediate...
Posted by Orac at 4:05 PM • 97 Comments •
Category: Skepticism/critical thinking
Yesterday, I expressed my displeasure over a truly idiotic press release by the Center for Inquiry over the "Ground Zero mosque" entitled The Center for Inquiry Urges That Ground Zero Be Kept Religion-Free. I happen to know that a lot...
Posted by Orac at 9:45 AM • 78 Comments •
August 28, 2010
Category: Religion
By opposing not just the "Ground Zero mosque" but any house of worship of any religion near Ground Zero, CFI jumps the shark.
Posted by Orac at 11:30 AM • 87 Comments •
August 27, 2010
Category: Medicine
Having followed the anti-vaccine movement continuously for nearly six years now, I had come to think that I had seen it all as far as deceptive strategies for frightening parents about vaccines. Obviously, becoming too complacent is foolish, because, as...
Posted by Orac at 11:00 AM • 99 Comments •
August 26, 2010
Category: Medicine
I don't know if it's confirmation bias, faulty memory, or if my individual impression is correct, but it seems to me that over the years I've been blogging that stories like this one seem to be becoming depressingly more common:...
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 538 Comments •
Category: Medicine
Having taken note of my little missive yesterday about New York Times health reporter Tara Parker-Pope and her utter credulity towards the woo that is acupuncture, Dr. R. W. makes an observation: A number of years ago I ran across...
Posted by Orac at 12:01 AM • 39 Comments •
August 25, 2010
Category: Medicine
What the hell is going on with The New York Times' health reporting? I've had my share of disagreements with the way that the NYT has covered various health issues over the years that I've been blogging, but I don't...
Posted by Orac at 8:00 AM • 109 Comments •
August 24, 2010
Category: Medicine
I tell ya, I go away for a few days and something always seems to happen that I'd be all over if I were at home and blogging normally. Either something major happens in the anti-vaccine movement or there's a...
Posted by Orac at 9:17 AM • 94 Comments •
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