Why people ignore vaccine denialists
Category: Antivaccination lunacy
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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)
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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.)
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Bill Maher flames out in a pyre of stupidity over vaccines--again
Category: Entertainment/culture
Bill Maher removes all doubt that he's an antivaccinationist.
Posted by Orac at 6:00 AM • 190 Comments •
Your Friday Dose of Woo: There's no woo like laser woo
Category: Medicine
I love laser quackery!
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 65 Comments •
Blogging Suzanne Somers Knockout, part 2: Is Somers a female Mike Adams?
Category: Medicine
This project is behind schedule. The reasons, I hope, are forgivable. First off, there was just too much other stuff going on last week, to the point where, even though I've read several chapters of Suzanne Somers' new book...
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 94 Comments •
The anti-vaccine movement, cranks, and "pseudo-expertise"
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...
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 250 Comments •
Blogging Suzanne Somers Knockout, part 1: How cancer testimonials mislead
Category: Entertainment/culture
The adventure of reviewing Suzanne Somers' Knockout begins anew.
Posted by Orac at 8:00 AM • 45 Comments •
The anti-vaccine movement strikes back against Amy Wallace using misogyny
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...
Posted by Orac at 7:00 AM • 540 Comments •
Fight the intrusion of quackery and religious woo in health care reform
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...
Posted by Orac at 3:00 PM • 18 Comments •
Your Friday Dose of Woo (on Wednesday): A homeopath "explains" energy
Category: Skepticism/critical thinking
Wow. Just wow.
Posted by Orac at 8:30 AM • 96 Comments •
Requiem for a quack, part II: Hulda Clark, author of The Cure for All Cancers, died of cancer
Category: Medicine
The title speaks for itself.
Posted by Orac at 10:00 AM • 41 Comments •
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