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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)
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.
Category: Blog housekeeping
In a nod to fellow ScienceBlogger Ed Brayton, with his hilarious Dumbass Quote of the Day, I hereby inaugurate the "Idiotic Comment of the Week," culled from this very blog. I don't guarantee that I'll do it every week, but...
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 30 Comments •
Category: Medicine
Remember how I promised that I'd do my next installment of my blogging Suzanne Somers' pile of idiocy, namely her own book, before the end of the week? Plans change, and neurons melt, which they did in response to reading...
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Category: Medicine
riley'smom is very unhappy with Amy Wallace: I wrote Ms. Wallace a private email. I intentionally wrote it directly to her private email and DID NOT post it in the comments section of Wired Mag. I asked her about her...
Posted by Orac at 12:00 AM • 48 Comments •
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 • 247 Comments •
Category: Medicine
The other day, I wrote about an unfortunate young woman named Desiree Jennings, who claimed to have had a rare neurological disorder known as dystonia as a complication of being vaccinated for seasonal flu, when it appears that her condition...
Posted by Orac at 12:00 AM • 59 Comments •
Category: Medicine
Say it ain't so, Billy!
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Category: Autism
The Goddess is displeased with the founder of the anti-vaccine crank group Generation Rescue.
Posted by Orac at 1:00 PM • 13 Comments •
Category: Medicine
A young life "altered forever" by the flu vaccine? Not so fast...
Posted by Orac at 7:00 AM • 91 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...
Posted by Orac at 7:00 AM • 540 Comments •
Category: Entertainment/culture
Say it ain't so, Data! Say you don't think that Dr. Jay Gordon knows what he's talking about when it comes to vaccines!
Posted by Orac at 12:00 AM • 311 Comments •
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