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Yet another nomination that probably won’t lead to a win…

Matt over at Pooflingers Anonymous informs me that Respectful Insolence™ been nominated as a finalist in the Best Medical/Health Issues Blog category of the Weblog Awards. I have no idea who nominated me (I certainly didn’t and was unaware until the other night that I was even a finalist), but my thanks go out to […]

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Autism Blogging Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Has it really been a whole year?

One year ago today, I discovered a rather amusing bit of chicanery on the part of an old “friend,” namely J. B. Handley, the proprietor of and driving force behind Generation Rescue, the group that claims that all autism (not just some, not just some, but all) is a “misdiagnosis” for mercury poisoning. Given that […]

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Blogging

Another thing to be thankful for: The only way I’ll ever be associated with Paris Hilton

Since some other members of the ScienceBlogs collective are doing it, link whore that I am, I couldn’t resist putting my blog into this site and seeing where it ranked. And here’s the result:

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Blogging Medicine

Dr. DB needs to be hit hard

So hit him. Hit him hard. He’s 40,000 hits away from 1,000,000 visits. Help get him over the top. Given that I’m starting to get in that range (866,000 hits as of this morning), here’s hoping someone will help me out in around two or three months, which is when I estimate that I’ll be […]

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An all time high

October was a very good month for Respectful Insolence, a very good month indeed. In fact, traffic for this blog reached an all-time high, edging out the previous best month (May 2006) by about 1,000 visits on Sitemeter. It just goes to show that, although traffic has more or less leveled off and is fluctuating […]