Now on ScienceBlogs: Charles Darwin February 12, 1809 - April 19, 1882
"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: Skepticism/critical thinking
It's rare that I have much in the way of reluctance to leap into writing about a topic. Any regular reader of this blog should know this to be true, given the topics I regularly take on and how often...
Posted by Orac at 3:00 AM • 47 Comments •
Category: Medicine
It's no secret that I've been highly critical of The Huffington Post, at least of its approach to science and medicine. In fact, it was a mere three weeks after Arianna Huffington launched her blog back in 2005 that I...
Posted by Orac at 9:25 AM • 87 Comments •
Category: Medicine
About a week ago, there appeared a story in the New York Times about recent discoveries in cancer research written by George Johnson and entitled Cancer's Secrets Come Into Sharper Focus. Overall, it was a better-than-average article for the lay...
Posted by Orac at 10:30 AM • 18 Comments •
Category: Medicine
More variations on a theme.
Posted by Orac at 12:00 AM • 22 Comments •
Category: Medicine
Remember Michael Egnor? I bet many of you do. If you were reading this blog three or four years ago, Dr. Egnor was a fairly regular target topic of my excretions of not-so-Respectful Insolence. The reason for that was, at...
Posted by Orac at 3:00 AM • 46 Comments •
Category: Biology
Remember Robert O. Young? He's the purveyor of only the finest quackery. Note that, by "finest," I mean the most highly entertaining, the sort of utter twaddle that makes me laugh out loud when I read it. Whether it's his...
Posted by Orac at 8:00 AM • 75 Comments •
Category: Medicine
As hard as it is for me to believe sometimes, I've been at this blogging biz a long time--well over six years now. However, I've been engaged, in one form or another, in combatting pseudoscience, pseudohistory, and crankery online since...
Posted by Orac at 7:00 AM • 45 Comments •
Category: Surgery
I'd like to thank Buckeye Surgeon for reminding me of something I had seen and wanted to blog about but totally forgot about. Maybe it was so forgettable that I should just skip it, but as a surgeon I actually...
Posted by Orac at 6:00 AM • 126 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 •
Category: Medicine
I've made no secret of my disdain for self-proclaimed "animal rights" activists, the ones who are more than willing to terrorize scientists doing research to understand disease better and thereby develop better treatments and even cures. None of this means...
Posted by Orac at 3:00 AM • 190 Comments •
