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Blogging Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Skepticism/critical thinking

Welcome two new skeptical blogs to the blogosphere

With the latest edition of the Skeptics’ Circle due to appear later today, I’d just like to point out that I’ve become aware of two new skeptical blogs: Action Skeptics (I like its catchphrase, “Annoying stupid people, one woo at a time.”) The Antidote: Counterspin for Health Care and Health News They’re worth checking out, […]

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Medicine

Tangled Bank

Tangled Bank #62 has been posted at The Hairy Museum of Natural History. Get your science blogging fix.

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Blogging Humor Medicine Skepticism/critical thinking

I feel so honored

Sometimes there are things that happen when blogging. You get accolades from unexpected sources, little ego boosts that make it all worthwhile. Such a thing happened yesterday, on the basis of my little blurb mentioning Skeptico’s takedown of Hank Barnes’s misuse of logical fallacies. The reaction, as reflected in the comments in Hank’s blog, was […]

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Medicine

Grand Rounds

Grand Rounds no. 2, vol. 51 has been posted at Diabetes Mine. Time for more of the best medical blogging of the last week.

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Medicine Science Surgery

Surgeon age and complications

As much as I try to deny it, I can’t anymore. Now that I’m on the wrong side of 40, I have to face what we all eventually have to face, the fact that we will age and that our physical and some of our mental abilities will decline. For some of us, the decline […]