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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
I've made no secret of my opinion of the animal rights movement, in particular Jerry Vlasak, a trauma surgeon who has openly advocated the murder of researchers who use animals while--wink, wink, nudge, nudge--denying that he's advocating anything. Another animal...
Posted by Orac at 12:00 PM • 60 Comments •
Category: Medicine
I've been thinking about the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. You remember the Holy Hand Grenade, don't you? It was in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, where a cleric goes on and on about how "three shall be the...
Posted by Orac at 3:00 AM • 174 Comments •
Category: Medicine
Over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, I was simultaneously alarmed and amused at how someone named Marc Stephens, who claims (although presents no evidence for his claim) that he represents the rogue physician and "researcher" Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, had taken to...
Posted by Orac at 12:00 AM • 150 Comments •
Category: Medicine
The CPSO proposes a policy "guiding" physician interactions with CAM. Unfortunately, the policy accepts the false dichotomies.
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 44 Comments •
Category: Medicine
It's always frightening when lawyers delve into the realm of medicine. It's even worse when pre-law students and political science majors do the same. Such was the thought running through my mind when I came across the most recent issue...
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 35 Comments •
Category: Medicine
I admire Brian Deer. I really do. He's put up with incredible amounts of abuse and gone to amazing lengths to unmask the vaccine quack Andrew Wakefield, the man whose fraudulent case series published in The Lancet thirteen years ago...
Posted by Orac at 8:30 AM • 98 Comments •
Category: Medicine
What did the poor Haitians ever do to deserve this? Think about it. A year and a half ago, they suffered through an enormous earthquake that will take them decades, maybe even a lifetime, to recover from fully; that is,...
Posted by Orac at 6:00 AM • 37 Comments •
Category: Medicine
A couple of weeks ago, the anti-vaccine movement took a swing for the fences and, as usual, made a mighty whiff that produced a breeze easily felt in the bleachers. In brief, a crew of anti-vaccine lawyers named headed by...
Posted by Orac at 9:22 AM • 46 Comments •
Category: Medicine
Recently, there have been grumblings in the ranks of Orac-philes. All is not entirely well. Or, at least, all is less well than usual. Even more unusual, I feel your pain. I really do. We've been enduring a stretch when...
Posted by Orac at 7:00 AM • 91 Comments •
Category: Medicine
Yesterday, I learned of how animal rights terrorists are targeting college students as the "soft underbelly of the vivisection movement." As an example of their new strategy, these thugs gloated over the "recantation" by a Florida Atlantic University student named...
Posted by Orac at 12:30 PM • 361 Comments •
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