Giving blood is one of the most important donations one can do in order to help other people. For millenia humans have understood that blood is important to vitality and life and naturally a lot of religion has placed “controls” on blood. Be it the various groups that practiced human sacrifice to Kosher law to …
Category Archive: Medicine
Apr 15 2013
Not the Quacks! – Dear Newspapers, Stop Giving Wakefield a Platform
Seriously? The Independent? Have you ass clowns not learnt anything from giving this man a platform? People have goddamn DIED because of Wakefield. To give him a platform is just nothing short of irresponsible.
Apr 14 2013
Not the Quacks! – Eleven Angry Strawmen on Vaccines
Carolyn Flannery’s article on vaccines up on Age of Autism is the strawmanniest of strawman arguments with regards to vaccines. And look! She’s got it laid out in a list! Without faffing about, lets dig in to Eleven Vaccine Myths No One Will Say to Our Face.
Apr 11 2013
I Get Mail – Biblical Medicine
When you have a dogmatic religion, you are entirely reliant on the dogma being 100% correct at all times. If even 0.1% of the dogma is proven to be wrong, it casts doubt on the 99.9% remainder.
Apr 10 2013
Strawmanning the Abortion Argument
According to Marc Thiessen, our stance on Todd Aiken was pretty justified if only if we treat the statement by a Planned Parenthood official the same way. That during a hearing of a Florida Bill to require Abortion Clinics to provide care to any child born as a result of a botched abortion, a Planned …
Apr 08 2013
Not the Ducks – A homeopathic challenge
A Gallon? Really! Apparently nowadays I am a big pharma dog, simply for the belief that real medicine is superior to homeopathy. Big pharma has not got me anything bigger than a really shitty disposable ball point pen. Apparently I have skipped out on the going rate for big pharma hand outs and opted to …
Mar 29 2013
Unclean!
A bill in Kansas which could theoretically allow the forcible quarantine of those who suffer from HIV/AIDS. Ignore the spin on the article, it’s fantastic but the law in question allows for the quarantine of those who suffer a communicable disease and by chance “HIV/AIDS” comes under that category.
Mar 27 2013
Thieves of Potential
Let’s call him V. V is 12 years old and came to see me today. And V is a classic example of “chronic starvation“. V’s got two sisters and a brother who are at school. They will be coming in tomorrow for an assessment too. V’s so chronically starved that he is 20% of the …
Mar 24 2013
Help the Real Vampires, Be a Hero!
I know it’s a silly title but there are people who need blood to live. Want to be a hero? Most of us can do this. Give blood. It doesn’t matter where you live, donate if you can. I have donated to families so desperate that they would give EVERYTHING they had for just a …
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