Fork-Tailed Flycatchers Make Sounds With Their Feathers in Different Accents (Inside Science) -- The fork-tailed flycatcher whistles with its wings in two different accents, potentially more ev...
On the "integration" of quackery into the medical school curriculum QEDCon is fast approaching (indeed, I can't believe I have to leave for Manchester tomorrow night), and because my talk ther...
John Weeks accuses Orac of having "blood on his hands" for criticizing the Samuelis' $200 million gift to UC-Irvine. Orac responds. John Weeks has long been an activist for what is now known as...
Homeopathy at UC-Irvine: The administration can run but it can't hide from its history of embracing quackery Last week, the University of California, Irvine (UCI) announced that Susan and Henry...
https://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2017/09/26/homeopathy-at-uc-irvine-it-can-run-but-it-cant-hide
Quackademic medicine now reigns supreme at UC-Irvine It's not infrequently that, whenever I complain about the increasing infiltration of quackery and pseudoscience into medicine, I sometimes l...
https://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2017/09/19/quackademic-medicine-now-reigns-supreme-at-uc-irvine
Shame! Another front in the libertarian war on the FDA: Rational Vaccines' unethical offshore herpes vaccine clinical trial I've caught a fair amount of flak over my opposition to so-called "ri...
A new nomenclature for auricular acupuncture: The ultimate in Tooth Fairy science Acupuncture is nothing more than a theatrical placebo . I wish I could take credit for the term "theatrical p...
“He couldn’t tolerate injustice”: Remembering Dr. Herbert Needleman My favorite way to capture students’ attention about lead poisoning is to tell them about Dr. Herbert Needleman and h...
A physicist clueless about cancer lectures cancer biologists on...cancer! There's a good rule of thumb about headlines (other than Betteridge's Law of Headlines ) that I use when perusing artic...
Study: Cuts to Texas’ family planning budget led to more abortion, unintended teen pregnancy In 2011, Texas legislators slashed the state’s family planning budget by 67 percent. The justifi...