"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, and pseudoscience (and anything else that interests him).

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Science and the AAAS (not to mention the WHO) sell their souls to promote pseudoscience in medicine, part 2

Post author By Orac
Post date January 6, 2015
65 Comments on Science and the AAAS (not to mention the WHO) sell their souls to promote pseudoscience in medicine, part 2

The holidays must truly be over. I say this because, starting around Sunday, the drumbeat of blogging topics that I haven’t covered but that apparently you, my readers, want me to cover has accelerated. However, before I can move on to what might or might not be greener blogging pastures, material-wise, I feel obligated to […]

Tags American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NCCAM, postmodernism, quackery, science, traditional Chinese medicine, World Health Organization

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Science and the AAAS sell their souls to promote pseudoscience in medicine

Post author By Orac
Post date January 5, 2015
633 Comments on Science and the AAAS sell their souls to promote pseudoscience in medicine

NOTE: There is a follow up to this post. The holidays are over. Time to start dishing out fresh Insolence, Respectful and, as appropriate, not-so-Respectful for 2015. I do, however, feel obligated to deal with one painfully inappropriate action by a major science journal left over from 2014. It happened in an issue that came […]

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