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Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Choosing quackery over evidence-based medicine: When is a patient old enough?

Over the couple of days or so, a minor flurry of comments have hit the ol’ blog. I hate to let commenters dictate the content of my blog, but it’s strictly a coincidence that this happens to be a post I had been planning sometime this week anyway and it comes around the same time […]

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Medicine

Change of Shift time

The latest edition of Change of Shift, a blog carnival for nursing, has been posted at Emergiblog. Check it out.

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Entertainment/culture

The Waiter reveals the benefits of those “concierge” programs

You’ve probably heard of them, those concierge programs credit card companies offer that claim to be able to get you reservations at popular restaurants. You’ve probably wondered if they were any good or could do what is claimed. The Waiter gives the real story about how useful those cards are for this purpose.

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

“On a mission to discredit any and all evidence of a mercury-autism linkage”

Like most bloggers, I suspect, I like to know who’s linking to me. Unfortunately, the majority of bloggers appear not to use TrackBacks, and even when they do for some reason the TrackBacks often don’t register. Couple that with a level of comment spam that sometimes outnumbered my legitimate TrackBacks by at least 200:1, and […]

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History Hitler Zombie Politics World War II

It returns: The horror invades Michigan

Sitting in a corner office, Adolph Mongo perused daily reports. It was early evening and nearly everyone in the office had gone home, leaving only a few die-hards left to finish up. A crack political operative who runs a political and media consulting firm active in Michigan and Detroit politics, Mongo never hesitated to play […]