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The economic argument against woo…

Yesterday was a travel day, which means I was too exhausted to grind out a piece of peerless logorrheic prose full of Insolence, Respectful, not-so-Respectful, or both. Fortunately, readers sent me something rather amusing that is also timely given some of the conversations we had at the Lorne Trottier Symposium Monday and Tuesday, where questions […]

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Why didn’t I think of this before?

Damn. Every so often another blogger will think of something that I really, really wished I’d thought of before. Times like this, and this handy-dandy alternative medicine flow chart. I do think he missed one thing, though. Just because someone doesn’t like having stuff shoved up their posterior doesn’t mean they won’t be into “detox.” […]

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Your Friday Dose of Woo: Can somebody get me some frickin’ laser beams with my Reiki?

Every so often, real life intrudes on blogging, preventing the creation of fresh Insolence, at least Insolence of the quality that you’ve come to expect. This is one of those times. I happen to be sitting here in Palm Beach, Florida, but I’m not chilling at the beach or pool. Rather, I’m attending “leadership training.” […]

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Could it be I was wrong all along?

Could it be that correlation does equal causation? I wonder…

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Quoth über-quack Mike Adams: Beware Lady Gaga. She worships…death!

I’ve expounded on the principle of crank magnetism. Basically, crank magnetism is the tendency of cranks not to mind the crankery of other cranks, even if the two forms of crankery are mutually exclusive. But it’s more than that. It’s the tendency of a single crank to be attracted to several forms of crankery. We’ve […]