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Your Friday Dose of Woo: Allergy Antidotes

When I originally conceived of doing a weekly feature entitled “Your Friday Dose of Woo,” I did it almost on a whim. Now that I’ve reached the second week, I’ve realized that this is going to be harder than I thought. No, it’s not that it’s hard to find suitable targets. Quite the opposite, in […]

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Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Still more evidence that vaccines don’t cause autism

The mercury militia and MMR scaremongers aren’t going to like this, not one bit. What should greet my in box upon my arrival at work after a long Fourth of July weekend, but an alert of a new study of a large population of children in Canada that utterly failed to find an epidemiological link […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Humor Medicine Quackery

My life is a waste!

PZ may have wasted his life preparing students for medical school, and Skeptico may have wished that he had thought of this first, but what about me, a real physician, who, if EoR is correct, has utterly wasted his life actually going to medical school? Read this excerpt from EoR’s Words to a Potential Medical […]

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Medicine

Grand Rounds on the Fourth of July

A special Fourth of July edition of Grand Rounds has been posted at RangelMD. This time around, given the holiday, Dr. Rangel has arranged the posts as a theme, namely a focus on the problems in the U.S. health care system and suggestions of ways to fix them. There’s a lot of good analysis to […]

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Last call for submissions to the Skeptics’ Circle

Hard as it is to believe, that time is almost upon us again. This Thursday, July 6, the latest Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle will appear yet again, as it does every two weeks. This time around, the host is LBBP at The Skeptic Rant. You still have a couple of days before the deadline […]