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Anti-Semitism Evolution History Holocaust Intelligent design/creationism Pseudoscience Skepticism/critical thinking

Random dispatch from the road: More on Darwin & Hitler

The other day, in the wake of D. James Kennedy’s dishonest documentary Darwin’s Deadly Legacy, which blatantly tried to blame the Holocaust and Nazi racial hygiene policies to Darwin’s theory of evolution in a totally dishonest way. Particularly ridiculous was Richard Weikart’s emphasison the observation that the Nazis used the term “selection” when doctors met […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

The Galileo Gambit

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 […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Friday Woo Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Your Friday Dose of Woo: Just what your water needs–more electrons!

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 […]

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Hitler Zombie Holocaust Intelligent design/creationism Pseudoscience Skepticism/critical thinking

Hitler Zombie massacre over evolution!

Things had been quiet. Too quiet. So quiet that Orac couldn’t even enjoy his usual recreational pastime of analyzing limericks and jokes linguistically in order to try to understand what made them so amusing to the humans among whom he was forced to exist. Even probing the perturbations in the electromagnetic fields caused by the […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Skepticism/critical thinking

The real history of traditional Chinese medicine

Wallace Sampson tells us the real history of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Much of TCM, it turns out, isn’t as “traditional” as it is sold as being.