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Humor Religion

While I’m on the subject of Zionist conspiracies…

…here’s an example where the conspiracy obviously failed and failed miserably. And if you like their Chanukah specials, you’ll love their Ramadan lunch specials. You’d think they’d know better in New York City, though.

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Complementary and alternative medicine Humor Medicine Quackery

Pity the poor UK homeopath…

…because, via Skeptico and DC’s Improbably Science, I’ve learned something that could only warm the coldest cockles of my evil scientific and skeptical heart. It’s something that tells us that, maybe, just maybe, what we bloggers do in favor of evidence-based medicine may actually be having an effect. British homeopath Manish Bhatia, Director of hpathy.com, […]

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History Humor Sports

The Chuck Norris of the 1930s?

Apparently Jack Dempsey was his generation’s Chuck Norris, who, as we know, doesn’t read books but stares them down until he gets the information that he wants. Here he is in a 1934 Modern Mechanix article boasting how he can “whip any mechanical robot”: Of course, I still think it would hurt like hell to […]

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Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Humor Medicine Quackery

The Onion on acupuncture

As usual, The Onion gets it right, particularly the part about all acupuncture being “fake” acupuncture. By the way, this is the study the article is referring to. Meanwhile, Mark Crislip weighs in on this study and some other recent acupuncture studies. Hmmm. Why should Dr. Crislip have all the fun. True, counting the study […]

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EneMan Humor

Takin’ care of business: A triple dose of…well, you don’t want to know

I’ve been very remiss in featuring what has become, from a very early point in this blog’s history, its de facto mascot. Maybe it’s because he’s just been so busy being BEOC (Big Enema on Campus), or maybe it’s a bit of laziness on my part. Or maybe having a giant walking Fleet’s enema bottle […]