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Entertainment/culture Medicine

More on Steve Irwin and stingray barbs

Dr. Chris Rangel has posted a good discussion of trauma due to stingray barbs, stingray venom, and Steve Irwin’s tragic death yesterday. It’s well worth a read.

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Medicine Pseudoscience Science

Bad statistics from HIV/AIDS “skeptic” Peter Duesberg debunked

Mark over at Good Math, Bad Math just posted a lovely fisking of a claim by Peter Duesberg that “all positive teenagers would have had to achieve an absurd 1000 contacts with a positive partner, or an even more absurd 250,000 sexual contacts with random Americans to acquire HIV by sexual transmission.” He even gets […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Politics Quackery

The Abraham Cherrix case: Bad medicine makes bad law

Boy, oh, boy, I had to control myself on this one. Yes, dear reader, while I was away this last week and a half, many were the times that I wanted to let loose about this. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your point of view) lack of Internet access at some times and other vacation […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery Science Skepticism/critical thinking

The 42nd Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle: Recovering from an attack of the undead down under

Rapidly dwindling vacation or no vacation, I have to plug the Skeptic’s Circle. Some of you may have wondered where the host of this week’s Skeptic’s Circle has been. After all, a few of you commented that his blog hadn’t been updated in three months, even with a notice for the Skeptics’ Circle. Fear not! […]

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Bioethics History Holocaust Medicine

Eugenics and involuntary euthanasia

While I am on vacation, I’m reprinting a number of “Classic Insolence” posts to keep the blog active while I’m gone. (It also has the salutory effect of allowing me to move some of my favorite posts from the old blog over to the new blog, and I’m guessing that quite a few of my […]