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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: Medicine
There are times when I look back, and I can't believe I've been at it this long. It's not just the blogging, the fifth anniversary of which is rapidly approaching for me. Hard as it is to believe, not only...
Posted by Orac at 3:00 AM • 79 Comments •
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
The story of a New York pediatrician and the effects of the anti-vaccine movement.
Posted by Orac at 6:04 AM • 31 Comments •
Category: Medicine
Many have been the times over the last five years that I've called out bad journalism about medicine in general and vaccines in particular, especially the coverage of the discredited notion that vaccines or mercury in vaccines somehow was responsible...
Posted by Orac at 12:00 AM • 162 Comments •
Category: Medicine
In search of the perfect funding source, and they all fall short. So what can we believe?
Posted by Orac at 8:00 AM • 62 Comments •
Category: Medicine
A three year old study is just as relevant today.
Posted by Orac at 12:00 PM • 38 Comments •
Category: Antivaccination lunacy
A photon torpedo of stupid nearly destroys the starship Orac.
Posted by Orac at 9:00 PM • 98 Comments •
Category: Medicine
Antivaccine propagandist Sharyl Attkisson strikes again.
Posted by Orac at 12:00 AM • 23 Comments •
Category: Medicine
Everything old is new again among the antivaccine movement. This time, it's more monkey business in the form of a dubious study.
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 43 Comments •
Category: Medicine
Alright, I think I got the whole Maher/Dawkins thing out of my system for now. True, given the highly annoying reaction of one reader, I was half-tempted to write yet another post on the whole fiasco just out of spite,...
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 176 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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