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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Blogging Humor Medicine Quackery

To the blog! It’s the Orac signal!

Buried in yesterday’s post was a link to a post on the Science Business blog, which is one of the blogs of Forbes magazine that was a dangerous gratification to my ego in that it mentioned this humble blog as one of the Autism Debate Go-To Blogs. Although Matthew Harper, Associate Editor at Forbes, left […]

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Humor Politics

In case you’ve ever been polled and were wondering what the questions really mean…

…Wiley explains: That about sums it up, as do the rest of the questions in the comic’s poll.

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EneMan Humor Medicine Movies

EneMan the science fiction star

As I mentioned in January, everybody’s favorite blog mascot has seemingly undertaken a new career in show biz. In fact, he’s become a big movie star, even popping up in some fairly avant garde movies. This month, however, he’s popping up in a most unexpected place: In one of the greatest science fiction movies of […]

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Blogging Complementary and alternative medicine Humor Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

For duty and humanity!

A blogger’s duty calls: (Click for the full-sized version.) It’s true: A skeptical blogger’s work is never done! When pseudoscience or quackery is noticed on the Internet, no mater what time of day or night, this skeptical blogger cannot resist the call to craft a takedown. Just ask my wife.

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Humor Religion

Mr. Deity on fundamentalism of all stripes

I don’t know about you, but I find Mr. Deity to be hilarious. This time around, with the most recent episode, he takes on fundamentalism of all stripes and whether there should be an afterlife or not. (For a commercial-free direct link to the iTunes version, go here.) And, of course, who doesn’t want third […]