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Complementary and alternative medicine Humor Medicine Quackery

A blast from the past: Seinfeld on alternative medicine

Here’s blast from the past. Interestingly, this doesn’t exaggerate all that much…

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Humor Medicine Quackery

On hitting your head against a brick wall

Sadly, this isn’t too far from the truth when it comes to some of these anti-vaccine doctors: Actually, it’s too generous. My only criticism of this video is that the mother with the child with suspected pertussis wasted more time with this idiot than was wise.

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Humor

One bad thing about TAM…

…is that I haven’t been able to go and see the last Harry Potter movie yet. My wife and I will probably go to see it next weekend. In the meantime, while I do the final preparations for our panel, I must admit, as being an uber-fan of The Lord of the Rings since I […]

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Humor Science Skepticism/critical thinking

Let’s hope they don’t find out about TAM…

Darn it all! I knew they’d find us out. I just knew it: Actually, I’m happy. Our diversion has worked. While the conspiracy loons will be protesting the lesser of two meetings, the real work in crushing conspiracies and ensuring our world domination will be some 600 miles away in Las Vegas at The Amaz!ng […]

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Humor Pareidolia Religion Skepticism/critical thinking

“You can’t spray Jesus with RoundUp”

Regular readers know that I’m a bit of a connoisseur of pareidolia, so much so that I even have a category devoted to it. For those not familiar with the concept, pareidolia is nothing more than seeing patterns in things. One of the most famous examples is seeing faces, animals, or other objects in clouds. […]