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Blogging Evolution Intelligent design/creationism Pseudoscience Science

An anti-ID initiative

I got this in my e-mail the other day that may be of interest to folks interested in countering the pseudoscience of “intelligent design” creationism:

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Blogging Medicine

Health care blogger survey

I got this request the other day and finally decided to take the survey that it asked me to. It was relatively painless and it might gather useful information (although obviously it’s not a scientific survey); so I thought I’d help publicize it. If you’re a health care/ medical blogger, this survey is looking for […]

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Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Katie Wernecke: I have a bad feeling about this

As you probably remember, the case that first got me discussing the issue of children and minors opting for “alternative therapy” rather than conventional medicine was not Starchild Abraham Cherrix (Abraham’s personal website). Rather, this is a topic that I first approached nine months ago, even before I moved over to ScienceBlogs. With the prominence […]

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Medicine Surgery

Grand Rounds, vol. 2, no. 46

Grand Rounds, vol. 2, no 46 has been posted at Mexico Medical Student. Enjoy!

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Anti-Semitism Holocaust denial Politics

A candidate for funniest and most idiotic comment all in one

The other day, I posted about the reaction in the white power ranger blogosphere to Mel Gibson’s little anti-Semitic tirade. Apparently a blogger by the name of Occidentalist took umbrage in the comments at my having pointed out that the rantings about “the synagogue of Satan” contained on an anti-Semitic blog were, in fact, anti-Semitic […]