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Complementary and alternative medicine Humor Medicine Quackery

Naughty skeptics! Naughty, bad skeptics!

It looks as though at least a couple of my readers have taken to heart my suggestion that, if the pro-CAM, “no skeptics need apply” new wikipedia known as Wiki4CAM won’t allow any scientific evidence to be posted within its pages if it does not support the CAM therapy being discussed, then perhaps we should […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Humor Medicine Politics Pseudoscience

Just what John McCain and Barack Obama need: Better “chi” through feng shui

By this stage of the game, I’m guessing that you’re probably as tired of the 2008 Presidential race as I am. Too bad there are still nearly three months of this nonsense to go, and, although John McCain has gone deep into the stupid with ads featuring comparisons of his opponent with Paris Hilton, even […]

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Entertainment/culture Humor

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle? Or: When tortoises attack

I realize half the world has probably seen this, given that it’s been making the rounds on the Internet last week, but it amused me to no end: http://view.break.com/293055 – Watch more free videos Don’t mess with Leonardo. Or is it Leonardo? Or Raphael? Or Donatello? No doubt this little guy is protecting Master Splinter […]

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Humor Pareidolia Religion Skepticism/critical thinking

All hail the Jesus Cat!

Sadly, I haven’t seen any good pareidolia stories lately, you know, stories in which someone, usually Jesus, Mary, or the Pope (or sometimes Elvis, who, let’s face it, is basically the same thing as Jesus, Mary, or the Pope), shows up as a seeming image on some sort of object or other. It can be […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Humor Medicine Quackery

The conspiracy is revealed, as the smoking gun is discovered!

Oh, no. I don’t know how they got it. I don’t know where they got it. But somehow, they got it. Somehow, those advocates of the idea that mercury in vaccines causes autism have gotten a hold of the white paper telling how big pharma fooled everyone about the real mercury content of vaccines! It’s […]