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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Recent Posts
- A study that oversells massage therapy
- An uncomfortable question
- Yes, Virginia, there is an antivaccine movement (efforts to deny it notwithstanding)
- An animal rights zealot faces her comeuppance
- The vilest antivaccine lie that won't die: Shaken baby syndrome as "vaccine injury"
- "Energy chelation" therapy: Scientific criticism meets common tropes of CAM apologists
- Placebo effects are "proof" that God exists?
- Microsoft, Merck, and Bill Gates: Eugenicists?
- Joe Mercola: Proof positive that quackery sells
- Goodbye and good riddance to organized quackery's best friend in Congress
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