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Respectful Insolence

"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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Friday Woo:

The SCIO, Quantum Xrroid Consciousness Interface, and Bill Nelson: Better late than never--or maybe not

In which a two-time winner of Your Friday Dose of Woo explains himself--with music!

Your Friday Dose of Woo: An update

It's Sunday, which makes it a perfect time for a little blog housekeeping, especially about a feature that used to appear regularly on Fridays. As you may recall, after the death of Echo I put Your Friday Dose of Woo...

Your Friday Dose of Woo will be on hiatus for a while

I'm not back in the mood yet, but, fear not, YFDoW will return. In the meantime, I provide an Echo update.

Sorry, no woo for you today. Or: Cancer isn't just for humans

I just don't feel in the mood to be funny. Here's why. Dog people will understand. So will cat people. Others, maybe not. I don't care.

Your Friday Dose of Woo: Generation woo

Before there was angry, "warrior mom" antivaccinationist Jenny, there was the kindler, gentler Indigo Jenny.

Your Friday Dose of Woo: The boneyard of forgotten woo

I know I like to say that woo is eternal, and it is. That doesn't, however, mean that individual examples of woo are necessarily eternal. Some, it seems, are. Does anyone doubt, for example, that homeopathy, which has been around...

Your Friday Dose of Woo: Crystals, crystals everywhere, but no woo to amplify

Hard as it is to believe, this little weekly vanity project of mine, this little weekly excursion into the wild and wacky world of woo, is fast approaching two years of existence. Really. I kid you not. This wouldn't...

Your Friday Dose of Woo: Kissing whales healing dolphins, or: Two great woos that taste great together--again

Man is not a whale or a dolphin. So why base a "therapy" on woo derived from observations of whales and dolphins?

Your Friday Dose of Woo on Sunday: Apparently the FDA doesn't get the "VIBE"

Oh, no! The FDA comes after one of the victims--I mean topics--of Orac's Friday feature.

Your Friday Dose of Woo: A "GEMM" of a bit of woo

"Molecular communications" + radio waves + electricity = woo.

Your Friday Dose of Woo: A Biblical cure for autism?

I like my Folder of Woo. Besides providing me endless fodder for this little weekly feature, my Folder of Woo also provides me nearly endless amusement. Sometimes, I'll just peruse it, looking at woo old and new, woo that's been...

Your Friday Dose of Woo: MORA the same ol' same ol' woo

This week was difficult. No, it wasn't difficult because I had hit one of my periodic woo writer's blocks that I whine about, no doubt to the occasional annoyance of my readers, even though I have one of the greatest...

Your Friday Dose of Woo: The secret life of plants

Last week's woo was pretty darned hard to top, don't you think? It had it all, after all: Boner potentiation, penis enlargement, magnets, near infrared, and more. The only thing it lacked that would have made it absolutely perfect woo...

Your Friday Dose of Woo: Where's the Enzyte guy when you need him?

What sort of woo is eternal? Not Enzyte. Maybe this product will do better. Or at least maybe its makers will stay out of jail.

Your Friday Dose of Woo: When two woos go to war

Meet the new woo, same as the old woo.

Your Friday Dose of Woo: It's not just silver, it's super-duper holy silver!

What's better than colloidal silver? Holy colloidal silver, of course!

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