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Blogging Personal

Getting to know the newbies (a.k.a. the “pi” meme)

Janet started it. John and Mike picked it up. Afarensis used it to avoid working on a post. John and Bora quickly chimed in as well. Well, given that it’s a Sunday and that I usually don’t do any heavy duty science or medicine posts on Saturdays and Sundays, it looked like a perfectly good […]

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Science

Ask a ScienceBlogger: Time

Time – He’s waiting in the wings He speaks of senseless things His script is you and me, boys Time – He flexes like a whore Falls wanking to the floor His trick is you and me, boy Time – In Quaaludes and red wine Demanding Billy Dolls And other friends of mine Take your […]

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Anti-Semitism History Holocaust Holocaust denial Humor World War II

Who perpetrated the “Holohoax”? Tell us!

Holocaust deniers sometimes refer to the Holocaust as the “Holohoax,” as if the whole thing were one huge hoax perpetrated on the world by Jews. Indeed, if you have the stomach to dive into the deepest, darkest, most disgusting parts of the Internet, where Holocaust deniers freely spew their lies, you will even find explicit […]

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Medicine

Bad History

There’s a lot of bad history out there. People abuse and misuse history all the time for their own ideological or political ends. Sometimes people are just ignorant of history. Fortunately, in the blogosphere, there’s an antidote: The Carnival of Bad History. Jonathan has posted The Carnival of Bad History #6 at Frog in a […]

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Anti-Semitism Holocaust denial

Prussian Blue, NAACP, what’s the difference?

Hoo boy. Via The Poorman Institute and an anti-Holocaust denial mailing list that I belong to, I’ve learned of an analogy so breathtakingly bad that I have a hard time not blogging about it, mainly because it relates to a topic that I’m very interested in (Holocaust denial) and a related topic that I’ve written […]