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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery Religion Science Skepticism/critical thinking Surgery

I may have to fire up BitTorrent for this one: Richard Dawkins vs. alternative medicine

The third season of Doctor Who is over. There’s nothing on the horizon for many months (such as the return of Doctor Who or Torchwood) that’s interesting enough to me coming out of the U.K. that I’d go to the trouble of firing up BitTorrent to check it out, rather than wait until it somehow […]

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Cancer Evolution Medicine Politics Pseudoscience Religion Science Skepticism/critical thinking

What a lot of it boils down to when it comes to antiscience

After a long run of arguing against global warming and indoor smoking bans, it appears that our favorite Libertarian comic with a penchant for bad arguments and ad hominem attacks on scientists has temporarily left the field of blog combat in a huff of “giving up” that reminds me of a certain Black Knight telling […]

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Evolution Intelligent design/creationism Pseudoscience Science Skepticism/critical thinking Television

Behe on the Colbert Report

In case you haven’t seen it yet… Sad. I can’t believe Behe is still using the mousetrap analogy for “irreducible complexity” when the very concept has been so thoroughly debunked over the last several years.

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Evolution Intelligent design/creationism Medicine Pseudoscience Science Skepticism/critical thinking Surgery

Stop it! Just stop it, Discovery Institute!

I really, really wish the Discovery Institute would stop putting out idiocy like this: We have blogged in the past about the growing numbers of doctors who are skeptical of Darwinian evolution to explain the complexity of life. Those numbers are continuing to grow, and conesquently doctors are beginning to organize themselves and reach out […]

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Evolution Intelligent design/creationism Medicine Science Skepticism/critical thinking

When Behe met a pregraduate student…

Michael Behe, that Don Quixote of “intelligent design” who never tires of tilting at windmills of “fatal flaws” in evolutionary theory that he think he’s identified, did quite a bit of tilting at HIV in his book. Watch his blathering taken down by a pre-graduate student named Abbie. It’s so good it’s been republished at […]