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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- "Obama's fixin' death panels for your mama": The USPSTF recommendations for mammography used as a political weapon
- "Obama's fixin' death panels for your mama," the misogyny gambit, and other idiotic responses to the updated USPSTF mammography recommendations
- Really rethinking breast cancer screening
- A dose of H1N1 flu anti-woo
- Bill Maher flames out in a pyre of stupidity over vaccines--again
- Submit! Submit to the Skeptics' Circle
- Cancer prevention drugs, supplements, and a false dichotomy
- Schadenfreude again over David Irving
- Hmmm. Maybe I fell for Obama's liberofascist plot to poison me...
- Your Friday Dose of Woo: There's no woo like laser woo
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