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History Hitler Zombie World War II

Perhaps the Hitler Zombie is smarter than we think…

After last week’s reemergence of the Hitler Zombie from his underground crypt to snack on the brains of a couple of political consultants in my home city of Detroit, my sister kindly sent me this link, which explains a bit more of the background. It turns out that the HItler Zombie may be cleverer than […]

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Entertainment/culture Humor Music Popular culture

Weekend YouTubes from Hell: Because you asked for it, more Shatner genius!

Last weekend, I posted a YouTube video of William Shatner singing Elton John’s Rocket Man in his–shall we say?–unique fashion. A fellow ScienceBlogger commented and asked if there was a video of Shatner singing Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. I’m not sure that this quite qualifies as what he had in mind, but it’s […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

One more reason homeopathy is not “harmless”

From The Daily Mail: British holidaymakers are putting their lives at risk by relying on homeopathy to protect them against malaria, doctors have warned. The medical experts condemned the practice of prescribing pills and potions made from tree bark, swamp water and rotting plants as ‘outrageous quackery’ and ‘dangerous nonsense’. Their warning follows an undercover […]

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Friday Woo Skepticism/critical thinking

Your Friday Dose of Woo: The secrets of Jesus and immortality can be yours–for a price

As hard as it is to believe, we’re up to the third week of Your Friday Dose of Woo. And, at week 3, I’m still having the same problem: too many targets of woo, so many so that they overwhelmed my tired brain not unlike Lionel Milgrom’s quantum homeopathy becoming quantumly entangled with my neurons. […]

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Medicine Surgery

Welcome another surgeon to the blogosphere!

Sid Schwab has started blogging at Surgeonsblog. One of his early posts is about a particularly difficult breast cancer patient that he had to deal with. He even shares my pet peeve about mammographers: The radiologist who read my patient’s current xray reported that there was a cluster of indeterminant calcifications in the previously treated […]