The real explanation for transitional fossils, radiometric dating, and genetic similarity
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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 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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Intelligent design/creationism:
The Trouble with Deepak Chopra, Part 3: More Choprawoo
Category: Medicine
Ooops, Chopra did it again on evolution and medicine.
Posted by Orac at 12:00 PM • 12 Comments •
More burning stupid from Bill O'Reilly on evolution and the "God of the Gaps"
Category: Skepticism/critical thinking
I may have been a bit hard on Richard Dawkins lately, but, if he believed in saints, Dawkins would deserve sainthood for keeping his cool in the face of so much concentrated idiocy coming from Bill O'Reilly
Posted by Orac at 3:00 PM • 88 Comments •
Creationism X Holocaust denial = stupidity2
Category: History
Larry Fafarman and the Holocaust. Ugh.
Posted by Orac at 8:30 AM • 75 Comments •
Sedalia, Missouri, you should be ashamed of your schools, or: The dumbest anti-evolution victory I've ever seen...
Category: Skepticism/critical thinking
Stupidity of this magnitude could induce a black hole of stupid that sucks all intelligence out of the galaxy.
Posted by Orac at 10:30 AM • 115 Comments •
Bill Maher and "anti-science"
Category: Entertainment/culture
A disagreement over what it means to be anti-science.
Posted by Orac at 8:30 AM • 56 Comments •
I wish I'd had this T shirt at TAM7
Category: Humor
A wardrobe opportunity missed at TAM7
Posted by Orac at 12:00 AM • 28 Comments •
I thought only Dr. Egnor wrote tripe like this about evolution and medicine
Category: Medicine
Orac sometimes likes to slum around creationist circles for his own amusement.
Posted by Orac at 12:00 AM • 4 Comments •
Sadly, The Onion gets this one right
Category: Humor
Run away! It's using logic, reason, evidence, and science!
Posted by Orac at 12:00 AM • 53 Comments •
Melanie Phillips: Crank magnetism in action on evolution and vaccines
Category: Popular culture
When you're a crank as cranky as Melanie Phillips, anti-vaccine pseudoscience just isn't enough.
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 37 Comments •
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