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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 […]