...more not-so-Respectful Insolence, courtesy not of Orac this time but of other skeptical physician-bloggers!
Enjoy:
- Smackdown, please (yes, Egnor, I'm talking to you) (by blog bud PalMD)
- Defending science-based medicine (by skeptical neurologist Dr. Steve Novella, who's been known to spar a bit with Dr. Egnor himself over evolution and neuroscience)
- Egnorance is Bliss (by Dr. Kimball Atwood IV)
More like this
Coturnix is organizing an informative google bomb — if you look up Michael Egnor on the web, what should you find? How about lots and lots of critics?
It seems only fair. Teach the controversy!
...like this (explanation here):
In the back-channels here on Scienceblogs and on Panda's Thumb we were discussing the pros and cons of paying so much attention to one Dr.Michael Egnor, a new creationist shill for the Discovery Institute.
*quiet voice*
I've got a present for Egnor too...
here
Hey, over at Salon.com, a good doctor is fighting the good fight against an antivax parent who thinks that correlation implies causastion: http://open.salon.com/content.php?cid=69352
Shoulda sent him my book.
Hm. . . I'm not sure if Egnor is an attention-junkie or not, but he sure deserves some. I'm no neurosurgeon, not even an MD, and I can see the incredibly poor logic and logical fallacies. Dr Egnor may be right in thinking there's something that "drives" the brain, but there just isn't any evidence for such, and absent evidence, the rational position has to be that there is nothing there to find.