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Fork-Tailed Flycatchers Make Sounds With Their Feathers in Different Accents
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
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 ...g the Samuelis' $200 million gift to UC-Irvine. Orac responds.
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
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
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
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
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
“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!
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
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...