Orac occasionally reposts some of his classic Insolence, which is a good thing – especially when he reposts something so mind-meltingly five-alarm Woo that I wonder where it’s been all my life. This bit of classic Insolence alternatively made me laugh, cry and howl. I ended up starting silently at my computer screen in numb …
Category Archive: woo
Sep 25 2010
You May Think I Hate You After This
I assure you, I don’t. I can prove it. I’m warning you ahead of time, read Orac’s Friday Dose of Woo in increments. Just nibble away at the edges of the burning stupid, then take plenty of antacid and digest for a bit before returning for more. On the continuum of burning stupidity, this one’s …
Sep 13 2010
Stretching Credulity
If you read only one cartoon this week, read this one (h/t). Warning: reading while eating or drinking may cause serious problems when you get to the end of the strip, so make sure to swallow any and all foodstuffs well before the final panel. Thank you, Chris, for pointing this one out!
Aug 05 2010
Not Talking About Robert Lanza
Not linking to posts about Robert Lanza, either. Nope. Not linking to posts about Robert Lanza at all. Not even this post about Robert Lanza. Because it would be just awful if Robert Lanza became upset. Poor little woo-meister.
Aug 01 2010
Newsflash: Sticking Burning Candles in Your Ear Could Be Hazardous to Your Health
Back in the late 1990s, someone babbled at me about ear candling for a great many minutes. They waxed poetic over the health benefits of stuffing a candle in your ear and lighting it up. I can’t remember why. All I can remember is staring at them with my jaw hanging open and thinking, “Are …
Jul 04 2009
For the Three People Who Haven’t Seen Homeopathic A&E
Here ye go: If you click the link, you’ll even find out what A&E means. You’re welcome.
Jul 03 2009
In Defense of Demerol; or, Why Woomeisters Shouldn’t Jump the Gun
Michael Jackson dies, and the next thing you know, everybody’s speculating that Demerol did the deed. Which leads whackjobs to froth at the mouth over Big Pharma’s complicity in his death, and Orac to deliver a spanking: Actually, it’s nowhere near certain that this is what happened. In fact, it’s highly unlikely, and, as we …
Jun 30 2009
PalMD Gets Mail
It turns out chiropractors are no better than creationists when it comes to intellectual honesty: A long while back, at the original wordpress incarnation of this blog, I wrote a piece on the reasons that chiropractic is unscientific nonsense. Because it was popular, I moved it over here. Well, a chiropractor has come to bravely …
May 16 2009
A Skeptic in the Science Section
Going to the bookstore is becoming a painful experience. I have unreasonable expectations. When I browse the science section, I expect to find science. Barnes and Noble, however, insists on including pseudoscience. Gah. After seeing Denyse O’Leary’s atrocity shelved with the biology books, I almost fled. Here’s a condensed version of the experience: Crap. Crap. …
Apr 30 2009
Swine Flu: The Terrarists Diddit
Newest wingnut theory: the swine flu is a terrorist attack: Larry Klayman and the Worldnutdaily are a perfect match. If Michelle Bachmann is the prom queen at Wingnuttia High School, Klayman is her king. His latest bit of lunacy is in claiming that the outbreak of swine flu is an act of biological warfare. And …
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