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Who (or what) is Orac?

Orac is the nom de blog of a 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.

Recent Posts

• Comcast: Cap bandwith?
• Better late than never: Some serious ignorance of history on display
• More of the consequences of not vaccinating...
• Tony Zirkle, You Are Dumb...
• Your Friday Dose of Woo: The secret life of plants
• The 86th Meeting of the Skeptics' Circle: A bitch of a meeting. Really.
• A (kind of) new cancer research blog
• When popularity outpaces science in surgery
• Geez, give a guy tenure...
• Be afraid, be very, very afraid, people of Butler County, PA...

Recent Comments

• Kassiane on Comcast: Cap bandwith?
• TLB on Spell-checking is a good thing
• Do'C on More of the consequences of not vaccinating...
• JM on More of the consequences of not vaccinating...
• natefoo on Spell-checking is a good thing
• natefoo on Spell-checking is a good thing
• Cain on More of the consequences of not vaccinating...
• Phoenix Woman on Tony Zirkle, You Are Dumb...
• Phoenix Woman on More of the consequences of not vaccinating...
• Uncle Dave on Better late than never: Some serious ignorance of history on display

Archives

• May 2008
• April 2008
• March 2008
• February 2008
• January 2008
• December 2007
• November 2007
• October 2007
• September 2007
• August 2007
• July 2007
• June 2007
• May 2007
• April 2007
• March 2007
• February 2007
• January 2007
• December 2006
• November 2006
• October 2006
• September 2006
• August 2006
• July 2006
• June 2006
• May 2006
• April 2006
• March 2006
• February 2006

Non-Orac Insolence

Medicine
• AIDSTruth.org
• Aggravated DocSurg
• Alternative Medicine and Cancer
• The Antidote
• Australian Council Against Health Fraud
• Autism Diva
• Autism News Beat
• The Best Shots Blog
• Bioethics Discussion Blog
• Bioethics Web Log
• Black Triangle
• Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
• A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure
• Confessions of a Quackbuster
• Correcting the AIDS Lies
• DB's Medical Rants
• Dr. Len's Cancer Blog
• Ethics of Vaccines
• Evidence-based Medicine First
• Focus on the AIDS/HIV connection
• GruntDoc
• Health Care Renewal
• HealthLawProf blog
• Healthwatch (U.K.)
• Healthwatcher.net
• Inside Surgery
• Kevin, M.D.
• Medgadget.com
• Neurodiversity Weblog
• Neurologica Blog
• Notes from Dr. R.W.
• pathtalk.org
• Pharmagossip
• Pharmalot
• Polite Dissent
• The Quack-Files
• The Quack-O-Meter
• QuackWatch
• RangelMD.com
• Science-based Medicine
• Surgeonsblog
• Terra Sigillata

Science
• Aetiology
• Bad Astronomy Blog
• Cosmic Variance
• Deltoid
• ERV
• Eye on Science
• Good Math, Bad Math
• Improbable Research
• The Intersection
• In the Pipeline
• Living the Scientific Life
• The Loom
• MacResearch
• Medical Writing, Editing & Grantsmanship
• The Panda's Thumb
• The Personal Genome
• Pharyngula
• Pro-Science
• Real Climate
• The Red Notebook
• Sandwalk
• SciAm Observations
• Science After Sunclipse
• Science Creative Quarterly
• Scientia Natura
• Sex, Drugs, and DNA
• Talk Origins Archive
• Thoughts from Kansas

Skepticism and critical thinking
• Action Skeptics
• Bad Science
• The Bronze Blog
• Butterflies and Wheels
• California Skeptics
• Center for Inquiry
• Center for Inquiry Metro NYC
• Church of Critical Thinking
• Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
• Conspiracy Factory
• The Crackpot Page
• Crank dot Net
• Critical Thinking Community
• Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science
• denialism.com
• Fallacies, Errors, and Tricks
• The Fallacy Files
• Freethought Weekly
• Handbook of Fallacies
• Holy Smoke
• Indiana Skeptics
• Infophilia
• The Inoculated Mind
• Logical Fallacies (Adam Smith Institute)
• The Mad Revisionist
• Memoirs of a Skepchick
• The Millennium Project
• Mondo Skepto
• Museum of Hoaxes
• The New England Skeptical Society
• North Texas Skeptics
• Philadelphia Association for Critical Thinking
• A Photon in the Darkness
• Point of Inquiry
• Pooflingers Anonymous
• Practical Skepticism
• Podblack Blog
• James Randi Educational Foundation
• Rationally Speaking
• The Rogues Gallery
• Sinbad's Bullshit Detector
• Skeptic Friends Network
• Skeptic Magazine (UK)
• The Skeptical Alchemist
• Skeptical Information Links
• Skeptico
• SkepticReport.com
• The Skeptic's Dictionary
• The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
• The Skeptics Society
• Snopes.com: Urban Legends
• Stop Sylvia Browne
• The Straight Dope
• Stupid Evil Bastard
• Two Percent Company
• The Uncredible Hallq
• Unscrewing the Inscrutable
• ZeroIntelligence.net

Combatting Holocaust denial
• Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum
• Cybrary of the Holocaust
• Dachau Concentration Camp
• DeathCamps.org
• Documentary resources on the Nazi genocide
• En Dansk Holocaust-ressource
• The Forgotten Camps
• History on Trial
• The Holocaust Controversies
• The Holocaust Chronicle
• Holocaust Denial On Trial
• Holocaust Forgotten
• The Holocaust History Project
• Holocaust and Humanity
• Holocaust/Shoah
• Holocaust/Shoah page
• David Irving debunked
• The Mazal Library
• Nizkor
• Simon Wiesenthal Center
• U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
• WillisCarto.com

History
• American Aces of WWII
• Art Kramer's WWII Pictures
• Axis History Factbook
• Early Modern Notes
• Freedom, Democide, War
• German Propaganda Archive
• The History News Network
• History of the Second World War: 1939-1945 (French site)
• The New York Public Library Digital Gallery
• Resource listing for WWII
• Third Reich in Ruins
• Wartime Images
• World War II, analyzed!
• World War II in Color
• World War II Plus 55

Politics & current events
• Advice Goddess
• Ahistoricality
• Andrew Sullivan
• Balloon Juice
• Hit and Run
• Jesus' General
• Kung Fu Monkey
• Majikthise
• Normblog
• Orcinus
• The Politburo Diktat
• The Poor Man Institute
• Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
• Sadly, No!
• Some Ramblings from Mr. Gueguen

Blog carnivals
• Grand Rounds (Medicine)
• The History Carnival
• The Skeptics' Circle

• Tangled Bank (Science)




Science and Surgery

• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• American Association for Cancer Research
• American College of Surgeons
• American Society of Breast Surgeons
• American Society of Clinical Oncology
• Association for Academic Surgery
• The Society of Surgical Oncology
• Society of University Surgeons

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Ecosystem

• Orac's place in the Federation Ecosystem (TTLB)

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