Your Friday Dose of Woo: No planes no brains
Category: Politics
When is a plane a hologram?
Posted by Orac at 10:00 AM • 38 Comments •
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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)
Who (or what) is Orac?
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.)
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Friday Woo:
Your Friday Dose of Woo: I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic (Beam) Blues Again Mama!
Category: Friday Woo
I love cosmic woo.
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 103 Comments •
Your Friday Dose of Woo: The physics of homeopathy and "nanocrystalloids"
Category: Friday Woo
Star Trek-grade technobabble as a justification for homeopathy.
Posted by Orac at 11:15 AM • 61 Comments •
Your Friday Dose of Woo: There's no woo like laser woo
Category: Medicine
I love laser quackery!
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 65 Comments •
Your Friday Dose of Woo (on Wednesday): A homeopath "explains" energy
Category: Skepticism/critical thinking
Wow. Just wow.
Posted by Orac at 8:30 AM • 97 Comments •
Your Friday Dose of Woo: Paw-erful woo for paw-erful pets
Category: Medicine
Because Fido needs woo too.
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 59 Comments •
Finishing up Homeopathy Awareness Week: It's not just homeopathy, it's quantum homeopathy!
Category: Friday Woo
What better way to finish up Homeopathy Awareness Week than with a little fun with Lionel Milgrom?
Posted by Orac at 11:00 AM • 17 Comments •
Your Friday Dose of Woo: The Emperor of the Woo-niverse
Category: Humor
Naturopath. Homeopath. Emissary to extraterrestrials. King of pyramid power healing and alien holographic projectors. Dr. Fred Bell rules the woo-niverse. And he and I graduated from the same university.
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 49 Comments •
Your Friday Dose of Woo: It's not just a breast massage, it's a Brassage!
Category: Medicine
Stimulate that breast lymph flow, says a chiropractor!
Posted by Orac at 11:00 AM • 43 Comments •
Your Friday Dose of Woo: Realigning your frequency, triphase style
Category: Friday Woo
Twisting your life force, one day at a time.
Posted by Orac at 10:00 AM • 43 Comments •
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