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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Science Skepticism/critical thinking

Back to reality after The Amazing Meeting: Now what?

Rerun time is over. Very early Monday morning, a plane touched down, a car drove along a dark and deserted freeway, and my wife and I found ourselves finally back at home. True, we did have a late night diversion to Denny’s because we were starving, but by 2 AM or so we were back […]

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Evolution Humor Intelligent design/creationism Religion Science Skepticism/critical thinking

I wish I’d had this T shirt at TAM7

Well, I’m back. After my trip to TAM7, I’m back in the real world, jet-lagged and tired. So it may take me a while–hopefully only a little while–to get back to my usual prolific output, and there will be something later today. In the meantime, just let me say I really, really wish I had […]

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Biology Evolution Intelligent design/creationism Medicine Science Skepticism/critical thinking

I thought only Dr. Egnor wrote tripe like this about evolution and medicine

I’ve just returned from Las Vegas after having attended The Amazing Meeting.. Believe it or not, I was even on a panel! While I’m gone, However, my flight was scheduled to arrive very late Sunday night, and I’m still recovering. Consequently, for one more day I’ll be reposting some Classic Insolence from the month of […]

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Biology Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Science Skepticism/critical thinking Surgery

Popularity versus reliability in medical research

Two of the major themes on this blog since the very beginning has been the application of science- and evidence-based medicine to the care of patients and why so much of so-called “complementary and alternative” medicine, as well as fringe movements like the anti-vaccine movement, have little or–more commonly–virtually no science to support their claims […]

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Biology Cancer Clinical trials Medicine Politics Science

Are we playing it too safe in cancer research? (Oops, Orac missed one)

This is just a brief followup to my post this morning about yesterday’s NYT article on cancer research. An excellent discussion of the NYT article can be found here (and is well worth reading in its entirety). In it, Jim Hu did something I should have done, namely check the CRISP database in addition to […]