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Your Friday Dose of Woo: The Iron Rule of German New Medicine

No, I’m not talking about “Iron Justice,” a guy who regularly posts to misc.health.alternative and seems obsessed with iron metabolism as the be-all and end-all of health and disease, with a particular affinity for iron overload as the cause of seemingly all disease, although he might make an amusing target at some point in the […]

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The 46th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle: On a mission from God

The Skeptics’ Circle has been hosted in many places and in many forms, but leave it to Kev at Left Brain/Right Brain to bring it to the one place that it’s been hosted before. We’re talking Heaven, people. Naturally, the assembled skeptics were a bit disconcerted by this particular venue, as amusingly recounted by Kev: […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine

Alternative medicine continues to fail

You didn’t think this one would go by without my commenting on it, did you? Even though Abel and Tara have already ably commented on it, I can’t help but jump in because the article echoes one of the common threads of this blog since the very beginning. Besides, as I’ve said before, just because […]

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Another reason to hope that the Tigers crush the Cardinals tonight (as if one were needed): Jeff Suppan on stem cell research

This one’s for you, Afarensis (all in good fun, of course–well, for the most part, anyway): Here’s Jeff Suppan, pitcher for the Cardinals (who, it just so happens, will be starting game four of the World Series tonight) appearing prominently along with Patricia Heaton, Jim Caviezel, and other celebrities in a predictably lame “response” ad […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Entertainment/culture Medicine Music

Say it ain’t so, Terry…

One problem with getting old is that you start to see bands that you admired in your youth start to betray what you perceived as their ideals. The Baby Boomers were the first to start experiencing the disillusionment that comes with that, and songs from the rock gods of the 1960’s have become ubiquitous in […]