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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)

Who (or what) is Orac?

orac.jpg 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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Antivaccination lunacy:

Best. Conspiracy. Theory. Ever.

Category: Medicine

Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey surpass even themselves in conspiracy mongering about vaccines.

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"Building bridges" to the leaders of the anti-vaccine movement?

Category: Medicine

Thanks to Andrew Wakefield, it's been pretty much vaccine week for me. Well, mostly anyway, I did manage to have some fun with Mike Adams and the immune system, but otherwise it's been all vaccines all the time this week....

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How not to report science and medical news, vaccine edition (addendum)

Category: Medicine

Yet another FAIL when it comes to reporting on vaccines, thanks to CNN.

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How not to report science and medical news, vaccine edition

Category: Science

"Tell both sides" strikes again, and medical science is once again abused in the news.

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How can I resist such a request?

Category: Medicine

Censored. The anti-vaccine movement keeps using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.

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The martyrdom of St. Andy, part 2: David Kirby rides to the rescue (sort of)

Category: Medicine

David Kirby is Andrew Wakefield's knight in shining armor as he rides to the rescue to defend Andy from all the criticism of his pseudoscience and unethical human experimentation.

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Self-healing and self-delusion. Guess which one Mike Adams engages in?

Category: Medicine

I know I spent a fair bit of time last week slapping down Mike Adams, creator of NaturalNews.com website. In reality, he richly deserved it, as he has richly deserved it many times in the past. Indeed, were I so...

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Here's another slam on Andrew Wakefield...

Category: Medicine

that's well-deserved and almost as comprehensive as an Orac screed.

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The martyrdom of St. Andy

Category: Medicine

Antivaccine prophet Andrew Wakefield: Martyr. Or, at least, that's what his supporters would like you to believe.

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They're coming out of the woodwork

Category: Medicine

Thanks to having been up all night Thursday night and most of the night a couple of days before that working on a grant, I know I haven't had a chance to write about the GMC's ruling on Andrew Wakefield's...

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