Categories
Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Humor Medicine

Blaming failure to promote anti-vaccine views on “progressivism,” briefly revisited

Earlier today, I had a bit of fun deconstructing Dan Olmsted’s whiny complaint about how “progressives don’t ‘get’ autism,” his definition of “getting” autism being, of course, buying into the scientifically discredited notion that vaccines cause autism and the quackery known as “autism biomed” that anti-vaccine loons like Olmsted advocate to “recover” autistic children. Of […]

Categories
Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Politics

Blaming failure to promote anti-vaccine views on “progressivism”

Every so often on this blog I get in the mood to take on a post on the anti-vaccine propaganda blog Age of Autism. Over the three years of its existence, I’ve seen some truly bizarre posts, ranging from one blogger blithely discussing how he took his daughter to Costa Rica for stem cell quackery […]

Categories
Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Medicine Quackery

At a local Target store…

Yesterday my wife and I were doing a bit of shopping for various household supplies at one of our favorite stores, our local Target. Having already been disturbed by the sheer volume of Christmas decorations and items on sale two weeks before Thanksgiving, I was even more disturbed to see this: Yep, it’s everywhere. Oscillococcinum. […]

Categories
Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Your Friday Dose of Woo: A healing footbath of woo

Last night, seeking to expand the name of Orac rather than his waistline, I did a skeptical meetup with a local skeptics’ group to discuss the topic of quackademic medicine. A fine time was had by all (at least as far as I can tell). What that means, unfortunately, is that I got back too […]

Categories
Complementary and alternative medicine Friday Woo Homeopathy Medicine Skepticism/critical thinking

Your Friday Dose of Woo: Holy Koranic Dr. Emoto, Batman!

Last night, seeking to expand the name of Orac rather than his waistline, I did a skeptical meetup with a local skeptics’ group to discuss the topic of quackademic medicine. A fine time was had by all (at least as far as I can tell). What that means, unfortunately, is that I got back too […]