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Complementary and alternative medicine Entertainment/culture Humor Medicine Quackery Television

The real reason not to get acupuncture

This guy would appear to be screwed: The rat running by the acupuncturist’s door is a nice touch, too. And so appropriate.

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Humor Science

Researchers versus biostatistics

A friend of mine at work sent this video to me in great amusement. I just hope he wasn’t making a comment on my behavior when it comes to dealing with our biostatisticians. I have, of course, seen investigators approach biostatistians this late in the game. Not that I’ve ever flirted with this sort of […]

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Humor Pareidolia Skepticism/critical thinking

Lamest pareidolia ever? Satan appears on a bathroom tile in Budapest

It’s no secret that I’m a bit of a connoisseur of pareidolia. The various shapes and contortions the human mind can impose on clouds, stains, pancakes, trees, toast, Lava lamps, toilet seats, and even medical imaging tests never ceases to amaze me. We are pattern-seeking creatures, and our brains will go to great lengths to […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Humor Medicine Quackery

More in the annals of “Boy, did they ever send this to the wrong blogger!”

Hi I was just authorized by my company, DrNatura, to offer an exclusive $10 coupon to you and the readers of Respectful Insolence, towards our most popular product, the Colonix Program. I thought you and your readers would be interested to know that DrNatura is an internationally recognized line of health products and programs specializing […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Humor Medicine Quackery

I didn’t know nonsense could be so well-organized, anti-vaccine edition

It was nearly a month ago when I first marveled at how nonsense could be so well-organized. My marvel was expressed at the awesomeness that was the Periodic Table of Irrational Nonsense (which, by the way, is now available in “sanitized” versions, as well as versions in other languages). It turns out that Crispan’s effort […]