I required some dental work today and had an interesting conversation with the lady who was doing some work on my teeth. As many people who have seen me on the SSA hangout or on one of Ed Brayton’s, they would know that I am one of those old guys with braces. I wore them …
Tag Archive: Medicine
May 05 2013
SSA Blogathon – Marvelous Medicine
There are often some rather impressive things in medicine. For too long medicine has stagnated in achievement mainly because the new stuff that medicine needs to achieve is “hard”. Hannah Warren is a Korean toddler. She was born with tracheal agenesis which is a rare and normally fatal birth defect. For 2½ years she lived …
May 04 2013
Not the Ducks – You don’t Need Glasses
One of the strangest types of quackery I have been subject to are the rants from people about the deadly “Big Ophthalmology” and how it ruins your eyes.
May 01 2013
SSA May Day Mayhem Blogathon – Not the Ducks – You Can’t Prove It
This one’s from Jake Fern, an anti-vax advocate.
May 01 2013
SSA May Day Madness Blogathon – 9 Questions that Stump every Pro-Vaccine Advocate and their Claims
Earlier this week I came across this article written in the inappropriately named Baby Centre website. It is a reposting of another article but the original site is down. In it is a series of questions posed by David Mihalovic; ND. These questions are allegedly meant to stump “medical professionals”. It was reposted by an …
Apr 28 2013
How to Scaremonger
The difference between anti-vax and vax is just which side we are scared off.
Apr 24 2013
Faith Healing and Never Learning
When you believe in something religiously, you are considered to have “faith”. I spoke about it earlier, the difference between a delusion and religion is merely what we believe in. A god due to it’s wide acceptance is considered “normal” rather than weird. The problem with a delusion is that evidence against the delusion is …
Apr 23 2013
Deepak Chopra, TED and Game of Thrones
Am I the only one who wishes the SI unit for “bullshitting about science” to be measured in Deepak Chopras? Here is the thing. Simply being liberal doesn’t mean you should move away from what people consider as “big pharmacy”. Pharmacy is entrenched in “Big Business” which is benefitted by the low taxes and reduced …
Apr 22 2013
Lack of a god is mental illness
There is a long history of trying to equate atheism with mental illness and it’s the same across the world. There is an unusual caveat to the medical definition of Delusion. It doesn’t apply to religious belief. If you believe that you are at the centre of a vast conspiracy you are delusional. If you …
Apr 22 2013
Sanguine Fallacies
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 …
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