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Russian Roulette: The patented Orac NIH R01 distraction open thread

It just occurred to me that it’s been a long, long time since I’ve done this, but how about an open thread to while away the time until the NIH R01 grant application is submitted, and that gloriously irritating and outrageously beautiful not-so-Respectful Insolence that you all crave can come roaring back with a vengeance? […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine

While I’m otherwise indisposed…

…take a gander at this post by Steve Novella about Gary Kompothecras and Charlie Crist and how they are endangering children’s health in Florida by promoting the father-son team of antivaccine pseudoscientists Mark and David Geier, the very same issue I wrote about yesterday. Fear not. The end is in sight. The logorrheic insolence you […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Politics Quackery

Gary Kompothecras and Charlie Crist tag-team an effort to support autism quackery in Florida

It’s grant crunch time, which almost always means that a lot of stuff happens that I don’t have time to write about and that the week after I submit it (i.e., next week) usually nothing interesting happens to write about and I’m left posting LOL Cats or something like that. Be that as it may, […]

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Humor Science Skepticism/critical thinking

Could it be I was wrong all along?

Could it be that correlation does equal causation? I wonder…

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Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

The testimonial of Hollie Quinn: The Huffington Post promotes breast cancer quackery right before Breast Cancer Awareness Month

I hate The Huffington Post. I really do. Why, you ask, do I hate HuffPo so? I hate HuffPo so because of its history from the very beginning of its existence of promoting the vilest forms of anti-vaccine quackery and pseudoscience. It’s because, over the last couple of years, not content with being the one-stop-shop […]