Oh, no. I've wasted my life prepping students for med school.
(via Skeptico)
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It's been an interesting week for this week's host of the Skeptics' Circle, Skeptico. He had a creationist appropriate his name, create a Blogspot blog, and actually post comments on other people's blogs under the name "Skeptico." Not good.
Yikes.
Grant crunch time or no grant crunch time, I couldn't let this pass.
Find it over at Skeptico; it's been taken over by Skeptico's doppleganger. Hilarity ensues.
Skeptico got a creationist guest blogger to put together the 35th Skeptics' Circle. Check it out.
Who needs fancy college-educated doctors, anyway?
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/49604
19th Century American writer Ambrose Bierce in his Devil's Dictionary(easily found online)gave two definitions of homeopathy.
Homeopathy, n. A theory and practice of medicine which aims to cure the diseases of fools. As it does not cure them, and does sometimes kill the fools, it is ridiculed by the thoughtless, but commended by the wise.
-A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science. To the last both the others are distinctly inferior, for Christian Science will cure imaginary diseases, and they cannot.
[sigh]
Quackery and so-called alternative medicine makes me sad, even when we can laugh at it.
The bit how that piece opens reminds me of someone I care for, alas.