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Medicine Skepticism/critical thinking

A plethora of HIV straw men

It never ceases to amuse me when a blogger known for his embrace of bad science anxious to claim the mantle of “skeptic” falls flat on his face doing so. For an example of just such an occurrence, check out Skeptico’s latest post, A Straw Man Gets AIDS. In it, Skeptico systematically demolishes an AIDS/HIV […]

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Medicine

Skeptics’ Circle reminder

It’s almost here already, hard as it is to believe. The next Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle is due to appear on Thursday, September 14 at Adventures in Ethics and Science. Given her spearheading of the lastest blog silliness that’s been going around here lately, namely the nerd-off that most of us have been engaging […]

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Medicine

Pediatric Grand Rounds

Pediatric Grand Rounds vol. 1, no. 11 has been posted at Breath Spa for Kids. Enjoy!

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Medicine

Change of Shift

The blog carnival of nursing, Change of Shift (vol. 1, no. 6), has been posted at Emergiblog. Enjoy!

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Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

I got the poison?

While I’m back on the subject of autism, I thought I’d post this video that Kevin Leitch created while I was on vacation and posted to YouTube. Let’s just say that it takes a rather dim view of autism “advocates,” particularly the autism=mercury poisoning crowd. I particularly love the picture of J. B. Handley that […]