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Weekend blogging fluff: The kitten of doom

There’s only one thing to say about this little video clip: Doom, doom, doom, doom, doom….. Hat tip to my sister for e-mailing me this! Hmmm, maybe I’ll get serious again tomorrow and try to answer the latest Ask a Scienceblogger question or perhaps cover some other of my usual topics. Some alties have used […]

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Humor

Who knew Bob Saget was such a badass?

I knew he wasn’t nearly as clean-cut as his televisioin persona implied, but who knew Bob Saget was such a badass. (Warning for if you’re at work: Much gratuituous use of the F-word is contained.) What I want to know is how they got George Lucas in the video.

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Evolution Humor Politics Science

Is it possible to be to the right of Ann Coulter?

I don’t know if it’s possible to be to the right of Ann Coulter, but Spacemonkey over at IMAO gives it a try. I’m not sure that he succeeds. After all, he says, “We let God’s will or survival of the fittest, if you swing that way, be the appeals process.” I don’t think that […]

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EneMan Humor Medicine News of the Weird

Going above and beyond (or below) the call of duty for medical research

I’ve heard of physicians using themselves as guinea pigs for their own research before, but this is ridiculous. Yesterday, my copy of General Surgery News arrived at my office. As I was whiffling through it to see if there were any articles worth reading, I came across a tale of a Japanese doctor who was […]

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Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Humor Quackery

The Spoof on Andrew Wakefield

Well, it didn’t take The Spoof long to comment on the Andrew Wakefield affair. Choice bits: While on holiday in the US in 1997 he was introduced to a creationist nutter called Professor Hugh Fudenberg who claimed to cure autistic children by giving them samples of his own bone marrow. And, my favorite: Wakefield was […]