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Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Medicine Quackery

When homeopaths fight back

I love it when my fans notice me. After all, of what use is my having taken so many hours over so many years laying down on a nearly daily basis if my words don’t have an impact? Surely I couldn’t be so egotistical that I’d do it anyway even if my readership was what […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Quackery

Mike Adams on Vaccines: Orac’s Corollary to Poe’s Law strikes again

A frequent lament of members of the anti-vaccine movement is that they are not “anti-vaccine” but rather “pro-safe vaccine.” they like to claim that they are not opposed to vaccines in general. Of course, in many, if not most or even all cases, that denial is either a lie or self-delusion. After all, even the […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Entertainment/culture Medicine Television

Another idiotic poll: Do you think vaccines are safe?

A friend of mine sent me a link to one of my hometown news stations because he saw something that irritated him. On the front page, there is a poll of such epic burning stupid that it requires an immediate crash. I may not be P.Z., but I have in some instances overcome my previous […]

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Politics Religion Skepticism/critical thinking

CFI President Ronald Lindsay shows that he still doesn’t get it on the “Ground Zero mosque”

Yesterday, I expressed my displeasure over a truly idiotic press release by the Center for Inquiry over the “Ground Zero mosque” entitled The Center for Inquiry Urges That Ground Zero Be Kept Religion-Free. I happen to know that a lot of supporters of CFI were very unhappy about the press release as well, because apparently […]

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Politics Religion Skepticism/critical thinking

The Center For Inquiry on the “Ground Zero mosque”: Incompetent satire or abandonment of principles?

I hadn’t planned on blogging at all today, much about on this particular topic. As some of you may have noticed, I’m trying to cut back on the blog habit, particularly on the weekends. Gone are the days when I’d foolishly try to emulate P.Z. Myers and have several posts up in a day; lately […]