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Growing up I was always fascinated, obsessed even, with the paranormal. I would watch all the primetime specials purporting to investigate UFOs, psychics, and of course ghosts. Sure I didn’t believe in every psychic, UFO sighting, and ghost story I ever heard. In fact, I thought that probably over 99% of all [...] Even if you haven’t yet read Time’s new article, Who’s Afraid of Jenny McCarthy?, I bet most of you have answered the question already. The author, Karl Taro Greenfeld, is no stranger to the issue of autism and wrote a book about his autistic brother. While the article takes a hard-line on McCarthy’s belief that [...] I was so wrong. I’ve pierced the veil, seen the devil with his shorts down and boy are his balls red. Of course it’s real, I should have always known! I just needed to connect the dots… You don’t understand. Consider me Virgil in your tour of the modern hell. The penny. It was always about [...] I don’t usually write a post that solely tells you to read another blog post, but in the strange case of Desiree Jennings, Steve Novella has become something of a primary reference. I recommend his post on this case penned at Neurologica. Desiree, if you will recall, was the young woman who presented with a mysterious [...] From Flickr by mahfrot This past Friday, I wound up in the midst of an impromptu game of “Settlers of Catan” with a bunch of doctors. I had never played this game before, I’d never heard of this game before, but my dear readers if there’s anything that I am not above, it’s a little [...] A quick note before I start this one. I’d like to say thanks to Scott, Benny, Michael, and Jareth for letting me babble on about this one before and after the Darwin Day lecture. All of your comments helped me solidify my thoughts on a few of these issues. And Benny? You were right about [...] Just in case you haven’t heard, a UK General Medical Council’s Fitness to Practise Panel found sufficient evidence to suggest “serious professional misconduct” on the part of Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues, who published the very first paper that insinuated a link between autism and the MMR vaccine. Further, The Lancet has retracted the original [...] Jane Roberts, from the cover of "The Seth Material." It’s true, my friends. Long before embarking on my career as an enemy of humbug, slayer of mountebanks, and scourge of human folly, I believed in pretty much every errant piece of woo that the culture coughed up. The following list comprises ten of the stumbling [...] A complaint frequently invoked by those opposed to Western medicine is that the industry has a general disregard for any potential health benefits from “natural” remedies to the point of snubbing plants and herbs that are employed by non-scientists. And in the next breath, such opponents will decry Western medicine for its unflagging devotion to [...] |
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