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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Computers and social media Quackery

Beauty and the antivaccine beast

The last couple of days have been very busy, as you might have guessed from my brief (for me) post on Tuesday and my—shall we say?—appropriation of a post to use for yesterday. Today’s going to be the same, but for more pleasant reasons than having had to go out to dinner with a visiting […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Does anyone “recover” from autism?

Way back in the day, when I was a newbie at countering the mass of hysterical pseudoscience that is the antivaccine movement, particularly the myth that vaccines cause autism, a blogger by the ‘nym of Prometheus taught me that autism and autism spectrum disorders (particularly by antivaccinationists and believers in the quackery known as “autism […]

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Announcements Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine

Another way to join the Skeptics for the Protection of Cancer Patients’ campaign, plus: It is noticed that Stanislaw Burzynski has thrown information about his “clinical trials” down the ol’ memory hole

While I’m using my blog as an announcement platform today, I would be remiss not to mention that tomorrow is Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski’s birthday, and the Skeptics for the Protection of Cancer Patients are still raising money for St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital in order to try to get Dr. Burzynski to do something good for […]

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Announcements Skepticism/critical thinking

Don’t forget: NECSS 2013 is fast approaching…

Time really flies. It’s hard to believe that the first national skeptical conference of the season is NECSS 2013 (The Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism), hosted by the New York City Skeptics and the New England Skeptical Society, is fast approaching. In fact, it’s only a little more than two months away. The conference […]

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Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery

Quoth Joe Mercola: I love me some Burzynski antineoplastons

As I contemplated how I wanted to start the blogging week, I thought that I should probably again plug Bob Blaskiewicz’s campaign to provide Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, the Houston doctor who for the last 35 years has been treating patients diagnosed with advanced stage and terminal cancers with something he calls antineoplastons (ANPs), with a […]