While I"m on a Mitchell and Webb kick and it's still a slow blogging holiday weekend, this isn't about homeopathy but it does skewer a certain profession:
You know, I can sort of picture Dr. Michael Egnor (a younger version, of course) being the brain surgeon in this sketch...
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In blogging, there are some topics that I know that I really shouldn't bother with; yet, somehow they suck me in. A number of things can cause that. Perhaps it's a topic that just gets under my skin to the point where I can't hold back a commentary, even when I know that it might be wiser to remain…
You know, I'm really tired of this.
I'm tired of my fellow physicians with a penchant for spouting scientifically ignorant "attacks" on or "doubts" about evolution. It embarrasses the hell out of me around ScienceBlogs, and I really wish they would stop it. Sadly, it seems to be an increasingly…
I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing. Certainly it's a bad thing that another physician is diving head-first into the pseudoscience that is "intelligent design" creationism and making a of himself in the process.
On the other hand, at least this time it's not a surgeon:
A Columbia…
I need some β-blockers STAT.
I say that not because I'm hypertensive or because I'm having heart palpitations--at least not at the moment. I'm saying it because, after reading the latest brave foray into antievolutionary ignorance by--as much as I hate to admit it--a fellow surgeon named Dr.…
I know several rocket scientists and I don't find them to be particularly smarter than any other scientists.
Hah! I beat you to it. And with the same post title too!
I have to admit that I could see the punchline of that sketch coming in the last few seconds, but it was funny anyway.
There's another Mitchell and Webb sketch on the Friendly Atheist blog: http://friendlyatheist.com/2009/07/03/finally-pareidolia-we-can-get-on-…
Excellent. Sending that to my rocket scientist relative. Yea, there's one in my family.
as a neurologist, I find it hard to believe that rocket scientists can be more arrogant than brain surgeons.
As a former aerospace engineer who has done some rocket research, I'm not more arrogant .... unless it is Dr. Egnor. (though I do find dealing with multi-varible nonlinear second order differential equations fun and entertaining, but that is just me)
But that is because I have fun reading what a neurologist's comments on Dr. Egnor's writings:
http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?s=egnor
As and aside, I recently listened to all of Dr. Mark Crislip's podcasts. In one of them he takes a dig at neurosurgeons. I don't remember which one in particular, but all of his quackcasts are entertaining:
http://www.quackcast.com/
I really need to proofread better. My excuse is I engineer, I no like grammar or spelling.
Homeopathy. It's not exactly medicine, is it?
:-)