Category: Medicine
Over the last week or so, I've been confronted full bore with cranks, staring down the barrel, if you will, of a crank shotgun, one barrel being the anti-vaccine movement in general (with J.B. Handley and his misogyny being the...
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Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 247 Comments •
Category: Entertainment/culture
The adventure of reviewing Suzanne Somers' Knockout begins anew.
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Posted by Orac at 8:00 AM • 45 Comments •
Category: Medicine
The little matter of finding out that the actor who played Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation appears to have anti-vaccine proclivities sidetracked me from something that I had actually wanted to blog about yesterday. Specifically, it's something that...
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Posted by Orac at 7:00 AM • 540 Comments •
Category: Medicine
Not long ago, I wrote a post warning about how funding for non-science-based modalities and, indeed, modalities that are purely religion-based, have found their way into various versions of health care reform bills that are currently wending their way through...
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Posted by Orac at 3:00 PM • 18 Comments •
Category: Skepticism/critical thinking
Wow. Just wow.
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Posted by Orac at 8:30 AM • 96 Comments •
Category: Medicine
The title speaks for itself.
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Posted by Orac at 10:00 AM • 41 Comments •
Category: Medicine
Thank you, Mike Adams. You've saved my blogging posterior yet again. What do I mean? Well, I had originally intended to do a lucid, insightful, penetrating analysis of a scientific study today. However, when I got home last night after...
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Posted by Orac at 10:30 AM • 103 Comments •
Category: Entertainment/culture
One last time. I promise. Until the next time.
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Posted by Orac at 12:00 AM • 71 Comments •
Category: Medicine
Chapter 1: A story about a misdiagnosis of "whole body cancer" sounds very fishy.
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Posted by Orac at 9:30 AM • 125 Comments •
Category: Medicine
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Posted by Orac at 8:15 AM • 19 Comments •