En Tequila Es Verdad

Well, brain dead, anyway, because how else are they going to transfer money from your wallet to theirs? Take water.  Just yer basic water....

I'm constantly amazed by the crazy shit people will believe.  Comes to that, I'm constantly amazed by the crazy shit I used to belie...

For a brief and all-too-memorable two years of my life, we lived in Sedona, Arizona.  It's a beautiful place, red rock country that will...

Do not subscribe, or give someone you love a subscription, to Mothering Magazine.  Mothering magazine: Peddling dangerous health misinform...

Kimball Atwood's been kicking the arses of all those who like to babble that because alt med's popular, even the most implausible, ...

Dr. Crislip's outdone himself.  He very nearly got me in trouble at work - riotous laughter in the call center isn't strictly forbid...

Read.  Weep (with laughter and outrage) .  Then sign the petition , unless you already have, in which case: go, you!  Tell your friends to g...

By now, the more perceptive of you may have realized I haven't been writing about pollyticks lately.  That's not because I've lo...

I came across this last night whilst reading the comments on Orac's masterful takedown of laser Reiki , and it's too damned funny n...

Orac occasionally reposts some of his classic Insolence, which is a good thing - especially when he reposts something so mind-meltingly five...

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 nib...

If you read only one cartoon this week, read this one ( h/t ).  Warning: reading while eating or drinking may cause serious problems when y...

Not linking to posts about Robert Lanza , either.  Nope.  Not linking to posts about Robert Lanza at all .  Not even this post about Robert...

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 st...

Liz over at I Speak of Dreams has put together a very comprehensive post about DDI's SLAPP against Quackwatch .  Not only is the post it...

Via our own John Pieret , who knows legal fuckery when he sees it, Orac points up the travails of Dr. Steve Bennett of Quackwatch , who is c...

We've all heard of the placebo effect, when sham treatments (sugar pills, toothpicks instead of acupuncture needles) are just as effecti...

Those of you who keep up with anti-vaccinationist news will know by now that a total moron named Barbara Loe Fisher has decided to sue every...

Occasionally, even though I'm snowed under between work, blogging and fiction writing, I'm able to sneak over to Orac's place fo...

I'm sure most of you have heard the news about Patrick Swayze, who succumbed to pancreatic cancer on Monday . He survived 20 months, wh...