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Complementary and alternative medicine Humor Medicine Quackery

Say farewell to World Homeopathy Awareness Week

World Homeopathy Awareness Week ends today. In celebration, I can’t resist one more swipe. So check out The (pseudo)Science of Homeopathy.

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Complementary and alternative medicine Entertainment/culture Humor Medicine Quackery Television

In which Orac does his part to increase awareness of homeopathy in honor of World Homeopathy Awareness Week

Today, April 10, is the first day of World Homeopathy Awareness Week (WHAW), or, as I like to call it, World Sympathetic Magic Awareness Week. Now, given my dim view of homeopathy, in which I view it as nothing more than, well, sympathetic magic, you’d think I wouldn’t want people to pay attention to WHAW. […]

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Computers and social media Humor

The eternal question about the new iPad

Will it blend? Personally, I doubt I’ll be getting in iPad. I have an iPhone, after all, and I don’t see where I would use something like the iPad rather than my laptop. Most of the stuff I need to do with a computer that I can’t do on my iPhone requires Microsoft Office and […]

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Blogging Complementary and alternative medicine Humor Medicine Quackery

Why, oh, why can’t I have something like this aimed at me? (part 2)

Remember John Benneth? He’s a homeopath who runs a website called The Science of Homeopathy and produced a woo-tastic video claiming to show us how homeopathy works. Steve Novella also took on his video. For his trouble, he was rewarded with one of the most hilariously off-base attacks I’ve ever seen, even from anti-vaccine loons. […]

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Humor Religion

I guess this means Orac must be Satan’s slave

Somehow, this picture seemed especially appropriate on Easter: Now watch for J.B. Handley, some other anti-vaccine zealot, or a quack to quotemine the title of this post. You know it’s coming… In the meantime, it’ll be back to the usual topics (and maybe one topic not so usual) next week. Happy Easter, you rabid band […]