Tap water makes people gay ---why yes says DeSantis appointee.
This time the word for dumnfuckery in the GOP goes to the person selected to control Disney’s special tax district, Ron Peri.Check out the reporting of CNN on this herexYouTube Videoits either the...
View ArticleFirst, do no harm...
physician Heal Thyself…I have in my mind the picture of Charlie Brown trying to kick that football. Etched in cartoon lore, is the knowledge that Lucy Van Pelt can’t be trusted. She will pull the ball...
View ArticleGrifters.com
tl;dr - a snarky review of a Q-atalog…After seven decades of life, I’m on many mailing lists and thus get catalogs regularly from places I’ve never heard of, let alone done business with before. Some...
View ArticleICYMI - Magic dirt, or why the latest alternative health 'miracle' isn't.
Via NBC News, a report on a long-running scam that took off thanks to the Internet:The social media posts started in May: photos and videos of smiling people, mostly women, drinking Mason jars of black...
View Article"Detox the Vaxx" is the New Anti-Vaxxer Grift on TikTok Reacting to Vaccine...
Well, it was almost inevitable that this would happen, given the gullibility of a certain segment of the American population: anti-vaxxers are now promoting the idea that that those who have finally...
View ArticleOrwell Visits Freeperville: Epilogue
(Originally posted 7/22 as “Against Solid Reality: Orwell Visits Freeperville”, now updated by this week’s sad yet unsurprising epilogue.)To paraphrase Orwell: soft-headed beliefs (and disinformation)...
View ArticleAgainst Solid Reality: Orwell Visits Freeperville
To paraphrase Orwell: soft-headed beliefs (and disinformation) can be held indefinitely—that is, until they smash against hard reality, usually on a battlefield ... or a hospital bed.Case in point,...
View ArticleTen months later, Republicans are still filling the Senate with anti-science...
Just because retired X-ray reader Scott Atlas has left his post as American’s fud-spreader in chief doesn’t mean that the Republican Party is about to be even the slightest bit more reasonable when it...
View ArticleOhio governor reverses hydroxychloroquine ban after discredited doctors meet...
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine abruptly reversed course on Thursday, requesting that the Ohio Pharmacy Board halt a rule set to go into effect today that would have essentially banned the use of the...
View ArticleThe doctor featured in that bogus COVID video tweeted by the Trumps is a...
Late last night, Trump retweeted a video from Houston-based “doctor” Stella Immanuel promoting hydroxychloroquine as a coronavirus cure. It’s no accident I put “doctor” in quotes. In that same video,...
View ArticleCartoon: Drink Your Damn Kool-Aid
when the polls won’t rise, when the economy won’t soar, when the bodies won’t stop piling up and refuse to be buried, when truth has a anti-trump bias … who you gonna call? oh yeahhhh …
View ArticleMaine Violates Separation of State and Religion
When Maine originally allowed religious exemptions from mandatory vaccination requirements, they legally acknowledged their constitutional obligation to not interfere with the individual’s religious...
View ArticleMultiple Sclerosis MS Liberation Therapy a debunked - useless
A University of British Columbia study has shown there is no validity to the Liberation therapy — widening of the veins which leads to a cure for MS.A double blind study was done — half the patients...
View ArticleThe Odd Phenomenon of "Morgellons Disease"
"Morgellons Disease" is one of the oddest social phenomena of the 21st century. Its devotees claim to have an unknown disease in which their skin grows mysterious fibers; medical science is unanimous...
View ArticleSpecial Guest Spammer! Dr. Sanden and his Electric Belt!
For all you planning on heading to the Klondike any time soon:This may be the long awaited Republican alternative to Obamacare, no?
View ArticleThe FDA and Defending Homeopathy
Today and Tomorrow the FDA will be accepting public comments regarding their proposed changes on the regulation of homeopathic drugs in the United States. As a long time patient of homeopathy, I wanted...
View ArticleHandy health tip: Beer could "help protect brain from Parkinson's and...
Oh yeah, this is some great news: Protect thyself!A team of researchers at Lanzhou University have published a study which claims that xanthohumol, a type of flavonoid found in hops, could help...
View ArticleMS: Three Treatment Options for CCSVI
Recent research into Professor Zamboni’s « Liberation Procedure » has focused on his idea that blood « refluxes » (backs up) into the brain/central nervous system because of stenosed or damaged veins,...
View Article16 August 2013: PTSD News Roundup, with commentary
Google News sends me a notification each day with all the day's stories related to PTSD. Usually I just read them and scream, or cry, or hit my forehead with my hand. But for the last few days I've...
View ArticleWould You Like a Varicose Vein Doc Shaping Your State’s Birth Control Laws?
If not, you may need to stay out of Oklahoma. Check out the birth control law Oklahoman Dominic Pedulla, M.D. has proposed and the medical pseudoscience he's conjured to support it. When The Onion...
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