Totally Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in India
Totally Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in India. Along with HIV and malaria, tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most dangerous diseases in the world. According to the World Health Organization, there were...
View ArticleConsequences of AIDS denialism–African American Female HIV Rates
Yesterday, I responded to an article that I read, where the author wanted African-Americans to refuse HIV testing because of…pseudoscientific nonsense. I refuted the 10 claims of the AIDS denialist...
View ArticleAnti-vaccine lunatic proud to spread infection to unsuspecting children
That is a screen shot from a Facebook posting on July 14, 2012 where a mother describes how she took her child, infected with chickenpox (Varicella zoster), to a baseball game. And she bragged how she...
View ArticleCircumcision–separating science from opinion
Circumcision is one topic that certainly brings up more emotion than just about any medical procedure. In fact, the same level of rhetoric is used for and against circumcision that one hears with...
View Article2012 Top Ten list for new drug approvals
The US Food and Drug Administration recently announced (pdf) that it had cleared 35 new drugs during 2012, of which 31 were novel therapies. This is in addition to the literally hundreds of approvals...
View ArticleVaccine denialists hate Bill Gates
One of the world’s leading sponsors of vaccine research and bringing healthcare (including vaccinations) to underdeveloped countries is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, located in Seattle,...
View ArticleDeadly viruses
The original infographic had a glaring error that I missed. It also had a potentially confusing bit of information. Although someone with a critical mind would quickly figure it out, I don’t think I...
View ArticleHow science deniers use false equivalency to pretend there’s a debate
If you read a news article, Google a scientific topic, or watch TV, you’d think that some scientific principles were actually being debated by scientists. From listening to the screaming and yelling,...
View ArticleMashing up the Walking Dead and science denialism
The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. I am really impatient with science deniers, so I saw something that will allow me to mash up two of my favorite subjects – the...
View ArticleBoosting immunity for COVID-19? Only when we get a coronavirus vaccine
The Skeptical Raptor, stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle. And here we go again. The interwebs are filled with quacks trying to claim that they have something for boosting immunity to protect...
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