This one didn’t seem big enough to deserve the full Your Friday Dose of Woo treatment, but I certainly don’t want to let this additional bit of religious woo go by unnoticed: SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – March 27, 2007. Regardless of creed, ethnicity, age or culture, throughout history people have steadfastly believed in the power […]
Category: Friday Woo
In perusing my Folder of Woo, which is becoming every more crammed with potential targets begging for the tender mercies of Orac in their very own Your Friday Dose of Woo installments, I was wondering which one to pick. After all, it’s an embarrassment of riches (if you can call it “riches”) in there, with […]
It is with some trepidation that I approach the latest target of Your Friday Dose of Woo. No, it’s not because the woo is so potent that it has actually struck the fear of You-Know-Who in me (I leave it up to readers to determine whether I was referring to God or Valdemort), although it […]
It’s been another eventful week on the ol’ blog, staring out with a post on despereate cancer patients self-experimenting with dichloroacetate, continuing on to do another fisking of the anti-evolution neurosurgeon and discussing real individualization of treatments, provided a little basic cancer biology, and ended up with some of the first straight medblogging that I’ve […]
Ah, yes, Washington, DC. That’s where I am right now, deep in the belly of the government beast, attending the meeting of The Society of Surgical Oncology. It’s usually a great meeting, except for the distressing tendency of surgeons here to act, well, too much like surgeons. For example, consider when the very first session […]