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A brief blog break…

Even Orac has times when other, more important things than laying down Insolence, require his attention. This is just such a time.

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Gary G. Kohls, MD mindlessly regurgitates misinformation about Orac

Dr. Gary Kohls
Gary G. Kohls, MD: Quack, antivaxer, and utterly unconcerned about factual accuracy.

Gary G. Kohls, MD mindlessly regurgitated an antivaccine lie about Orac. Orac responds. It does not go well for Dr. Kohls. Basically, it’s not wise to tug on Superman’s cape.

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A brief blog break…

Orac is taking a blog break to recharge his Tarial cell. Don’t worry, he’ll be back to lay his usual brand of Insolence down soon enough. In the meantime, play nice and enjoy the puppies.

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Deepak Chopra likes me! He really, really likes me! (Well, not really…)

Deepak Chopra, retreating into meditation after tangling with skeptics again.

Orac is currently hiding from the Federation in an undisclosed location (somewhere warm and out of the country, the better to avoid election news after having cast an absentee ballot), where he is charging his Tarial cells, the better to return fully recharged and ready to dive back into the massive piles of woo awaiting […]

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I am Spartacus! or: Orac applies some Insolence to a rather confused antivaccine blogger

Although I'm flattered that an antiavccine blogger seems to think Orac and Skeptical Raptor are one in the same, I assure you they are not. Blinky lights and green scales do not go well together. Yes, I know velociraptors probably had feathers, but go with the joke please. It's so much cooler that way. In any event, for those of you not familiar with Orac's namesake, he's the clear box that everyone's standing around on the right, a blinky box that was the most powerful computer in the universe in a 1970s British SF show.

I’ve used my current pseudonym since at least the late 1990s, first on Usenet and then on the first incarnation of this blog. Not surprisingly in retrospect (although it surprised me at the time), people who didn’t like me began trying back in the 1990s to “unmask” me. It began with Holocaust deniers. No, I’m […]