"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, and pseudoscience (and anything else that interests him).

Category: Holocaust

Far, far, sooner than expected, the monster returns to invade the Presidential campaign

Post author By Orac
Post date February 20, 2008
41 Comments on Far, far, sooner than expected, the monster returns to invade the Presidential campaign

Deep underneath the brick and steel of a nondescript building somewhere in Manhattan, within the very bowels of the city itself, not far from the Seed mothership, Orac waited. After over a year’s absence, the monster had returned to consume the most unpalatable brain of a former Nixon speechwriter who had decided that he knew […]

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There’s tasteless, and then there’s tasteless

Post author By Orac
Post date January 30, 2008
33 Comments on There’s tasteless, and then there’s tasteless

Like most people, I have my limits. Actually, I have a pretty high tolerance for tastelessness. It’s a necessity in a world like this, where tastelessness increasingly goes beyond the pale. But even I am not above finding something like this so tasteless and offensive that I can only shake my head: RIO DE JANEIRO […]

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A trio of terror, part III: The search for everybody’s favorite brain-eating FÃ¼hrer continues

Post author By Orac
Post date January 17, 2008

Things are crazy now for me, both at home and at work. I mean really, really crazy. So crazy that even I, one of the most verbose bloggers out there, am forced to take two or three days off from my little addiction–I mean habit. Consequently, having foreseen that this time would come around these […]