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Entertainment/culture Paranormal Pseudoscience Skepticism/critical thinking Television

Haunting a house in southeast Michigan: I think this reporter missed a possible explanation

For skeptics, TV news in my hometown sucks. Actually, it sucks for just about anyone with two brain cells to rub together, but it’s especially painful for skeptics and scientists to watch. On one station last year, there was the most credulous report I’ve ever seen about–of all things–orbs! It was presented as though these […]

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Entertainment/culture Humor Television

Funniest commercial ever?

You be the judge! And patriotic, too! Huh, huh, huh. He said “stimulus package.”

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Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Entertainment/culture Medicine Quackery Television

Even Tarial cell-powered computers sometimes screw up

I really need to rein myself in sometimes. Yesterday, all pleased as punch with myself for my mad Google skillz and for thinking I figured out just what “alternative” therapy it was that Farrah Fawcett had undergone that had resulted in what sounded for all the world like a rectus sheath hematoma, I wrote about […]

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Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Entertainment/culture Medicine Popular culture Quackery Television

Farrah Fawcett, anal cancer, and “alternative medicine cancer cures”

Note the followup post to this one, in which Orac admits error. You just have to read it, given how rarely Orac messes up when speculating… Our cancer center has a large, open area interspersed with patient waiting areas, one of which is the clinic where I see patients, that I frequently must traverse to […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Entertainment/culture Medicine Popular culture Quackery Television

The Jenny and Jim antivaccine show on Larry King Live

Embedded video from CNN Video Over the weekend, a lot of readers sent me links to Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey’s appearance on Larry King Live. (If you can’t stand watching the embedded video of the segment, the transcript is here.) Fortunately for me (and, I hope, you), a “friend” of mine has written a […]