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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 spent a lot of time over the years looking at cranks, examining crank science (i.e., pseudoscience), and trying to figure out how to inoculate people against crankery. Because I'm a physician, I tend to do it mostly in the...
Posted by Orac at 3:00 AM • 74 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: Skepticism/critical thinking
...because he's sure as heck doing his best to cause it damage with nonsense about evolution.
Posted by Orac at 12:00 AM • 12 Comments •
Category: Skepticism/critical thinking
After you've been blogging as long as I have, you inevitably wind up on a lot of mailing lists. Publicity companies, for instance, long ago discovered that getting a buzz going in the blogosphere is every bit as important as...
Posted by Orac at 3:00 AM • 44 Comments •
Category: Medicine
One of the great things about having declared Vaccine Awareness Week is that it gives me a convenient excuse to revisit topics and blog posts that I had meant to address but that somehow didn't make the cut the first...
Posted by Orac at 8:00 AM • 93 Comments •
Category: Medicine
I've been a critic of Arianna Huffington's massive group blog, The Huffington Post, since three weeks after it first blighted the blogosphere. That's when I first noticed that the "health" section (such as it is) of HuffPo had already become...
Posted by Orac at 3:00 PM • 49 Comments •
Category: Medicine
I don't know if I need to get out the infamous paper bag or--even worse--the Doctor Doom mask out yet. As you may recall (if you are a long time reader, anyway) is that the mind-numbing stupidity of certain MDs...
Posted by Orac at 8:00 AM • 223 Comments •
Category: Science
It's really, really scary when anti-contraception, anti-abortion wingnuts try to "do" science.
Posted by Orac at 8:15 AM • 90 Comments •
Category: Medicine
Confusing science with censorship over vaccines.
Posted by Orac at 9:00 AM • 314 Comments •
Category: Skepticism/critical thinking
Since I happen to have fallen into the topic of anthropogenic global warming, before I move back to medical topics I might as well have a little fun. Certainly, I could use some, given that I just wrote two posts...
Posted by Orac at 12:00 PM • 58 Comments •
