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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Entertainment/culture Medicine Television

Irresponsible anti-vaccination idiocy about autism to air on ABC’s “Eli Stone”

It’s times like these that I wish the Hollywood writers’ strike had really and truly shut down production of new dramas completely. A new series on ABC set to premiere on January 31 looks as though it’s going to dish up a heapin’ helpin’ of the vilest antivaccination lies and propaganda that will potentially endanger […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Politics Quackery

Joseph Chikelue Obi: It’s the Society of Homoepathic Thuggery all over again, or more abusive legal threats against a skeptical blogger

Three months ago, I wrote about vacuous legal threats issued by the Society of Homeopaths against one of the better skeptical bloggers, Le Canard Noir, who runs the excellent Quackometer Blog and created the infamous Quackometer, in order to intimidate him into silence. The attempt backfired spectacularly, as scores of bloggers reposted the article by […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Antivaccination lunacy invades Oklahoma City…

…and ERV has the scoop, along with pictures. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about April Renée, the former President of The Autism Autoimmunity Project and a frequent speaker for Vaccine Injured Children, who was scheduled to speak in Oklahoma City on Saturday; so I’m not surprised at ERV’s observation: As for April Renée’s […]

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Cancer Medicine

An opposite effect of chemotherapy?

Let’s face it. These days, research papers in the peer-reviewed biomedical scientific literature are becoming more and more complex and difficult to understand. For many journals, it seems, if you don’t have at least seven meaty, dense, multipanel figures (preferably some of which with flashy color confocal microscopy), you don’t have a prayer of getting […]

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Announcements Medicine Surgery

In the mood for some great surgery blogging?

In the mood for some great surgery blogging? Then head on over to the latest edition of SurgeXperiences over at Counting Sheep. While you’re at it, head on over to the SurgeXperiences archive site and peruse past editions.