SMH has some strange idea if it thinks calls for rational debate over death threats should be rejected.
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Tags: censorship, death threats, ethics, media, medicine, SMH
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Tags: children, comic, health, medicine, quacks, StopAVN, vaccination
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It seems someone tested the dubious communication of the “coma man” who supposedly was “talking” via a facilitator after 23 years of being trapped in a coma.
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Tags: coma, communication, medicine, miracle, quacks, skeptic
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What is homoeopathy? What is the 10:23 campaign? And what’s this about water having a memory and boots selling sugar pills?
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Tags: 1023, Boots chemist, health, homeopathy, homoeopathy, medicine, quacks, skeptic, snake oil
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The vision of TED is “Ideas worth spreading”, so with disasters similar to the recent Haitian Earthquakes I thought I’d highlight and spread 15 talks presented at TED over the years that are of interest in disaster situations and useful in (somewhat) “disaster proofing” the developing world.
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Tags: communication, developing nations, disaster, Education, Haiti, health, list, medicine, optimism, TED Talk, water, women, world
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Wrote a letter to the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday about the ridiculously vague “miracle” attributed to Mary Mackillop and it ended up published.
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Tags: atheism, catholics, Mary Mackillop, medicine, miracle, placebo, quacks, religion, SMH, stupidity
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Some of the anti-vaccine stuff is reading like a crazy movie plot..
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Tags: bird flu, conspiracy, crackpots, flu, health, medicine, quacks, vaccination
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