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EneMan Humor Medicine

Be afraid, be very afraid…

…EneMan thinks he’s “too sexy”: Unfortunately, someone else is claiming EneMan as her mascot: We can’t have that. Remember, EneMan has been this blogs mascot since December 2004. Maybe he’s getting restless because he hasn’t been featured very often the last couple of years. I wonder if I should remedy that…

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Humor Medicine Politics

File under: “Thermonuclear, The Stupid, It Burns”

There are times when I see a quote by someone who is clearly extremely intelligent, but the quote is so utterly dumb, so devoid of any evidence that a single functioning neuron was behind it, that I can only shake my head in disbelief. Thanks to Dr. Val, Dr. Wes, and Walter Olson, I’ve found […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Entertainment/culture Humor Quackery Science fiction/fantasy Skepticism/critical thinking Television

The 100th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle: The trouble with Orac

It’s the 100th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle, and Orac is unleashed!

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History Humor World War II

The Real Estate Downfall

Downfall was a great movie, arguably the greatest movie about Adolf Hitler’s final days ever made. However, it contains one scene, one incredibly powerful scene, where aides bring Hitler news that the last defenses had fallen, that the divisions that Hitler thought he had no longer existed, and that the forces that were trying to […]

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Autism Humor Medicine

The Onion on the “rainman” autism study linking rainfall levels to autism

I wrote about this study the other day, but clearly I didn’t have the final word. As usual, The Onion nails it.