Comments on: Medical blog now online http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/01/12/medical-blog-now-online/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:57:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Ethan http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/01/12/medical-blog-now-online/#comment-63181 Ethan Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:23:47 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/01/12/medical-blog-now-online/#comment-63181 Thanks for the link. Looks pretty cool from what I can tell. <a href="http://www.breakthroughdigest.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.breakthroughdigest.com/</a> Thanks for the link. Looks pretty cool from what I can tell.

http://www.breakthroughdigest.com/

]]> By: MO Man http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/01/12/medical-blog-now-online/#comment-63180 MO Man Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:39:36 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/01/12/medical-blog-now-online/#comment-63180 Quiet Desperation doesn't have anyone in the family who is gullible? Obvious conclusion: QD is an orphan. Another one of the five writers will be Wallace Sampson, I do believe, who has been active with CISCOP and putting out a newsletter on garbage medicine for many years. Go, Wally! Quiet Desperation doesn’t have anyone in the family who is gullible? Obvious conclusion: QD is an orphan.
Another one of the five writers will be Wallace Sampson, I do believe, who has been active with CISCOP and putting out a newsletter on garbage medicine for many years. Go, Wally!

]]> By: tacitus http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/01/12/medical-blog-now-online/#comment-63179 tacitus Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:17:23 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/01/12/medical-blog-now-online/#comment-63179 Ah, but I said "almost everybody". Sorry. :) Ah, but I said “almost everybody”.

Sorry.
:)

]]> By: revmonkeyboy http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/01/12/medical-blog-now-online/#comment-63178 revmonkeyboy Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:02:40 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/01/12/medical-blog-now-online/#comment-63178 I believe that the medical antiscience groups are the most dangerous out there. This is not just a case of giving hope to those who can not be treated by modern medicine, they target those than can easily be treated by modern medicine. I have Type 1 Diabetes, my illness can be treated, but there are many claiming an "herbal cure" or other such nonsense. It shocks me that the scammers do not even understand the disease at all, as many patients do not. Knowledge is the best weapon against any such disease. Not understanding this can easily take years off your life. I hear the "they don't want to cure it" excuse nearly daily. I watch the research, it seems a huge waste of money to do so much research in something that you do not want to cure. Another point: Do you know any researcher that would pass up a Nobel Prize? How about the adoration of millions. I would personally send flowers to the person or team that cures my diabetes. They would get fame, fortune, and a name in history, not many would pass that up! I believe that the medical antiscience groups are the most dangerous out there. This is not just a case of giving hope to those who can not be treated by modern medicine, they target those than can easily be treated by modern medicine. I have Type 1 Diabetes, my illness can be treated, but there are many claiming an “herbal cure” or other such nonsense. It shocks me that the scammers do not even understand the disease at all, as many patients do not. Knowledge is the best weapon against any such disease. Not understanding this can easily take years off your life.

I hear the “they don’t want to cure it” excuse nearly daily. I watch the research, it seems a huge waste of money to do so much research in something that you do not want to cure. Another point: Do you know any researcher that would pass up a Nobel Prize? How about the adoration of millions. I would personally send flowers to the person or team that cures my diabetes. They would get fame, fortune, and a name in history, not many would pass that up!

]]> By: Quiet Desperation http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/01/12/medical-blog-now-online/#comment-63177 Quiet Desperation Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:47:44 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/01/12/medical-blog-now-online/#comment-63177 --- <i>And I’m willing to bet that almost everyone who reads this blog knows has a family member or friend who has been taken in by them. I certainly have.</i> Nope. Not a one. Will you be paying off in cash or check? — And I’m willing to bet that almost everyone who reads this blog knows has a family member or friend who has been taken in by them. I certainly have.

Nope. Not a one.

Will you be paying off in cash or check?

]]> By: Quiet Desperation http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/01/12/medical-blog-now-online/#comment-63176 Quiet Desperation Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:45:25 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/01/12/medical-blog-now-online/#comment-63176 --- <i>...but what does “woo” stand for?</i> The World Order Organization, the main ubercorporation backed group that is working secretly to bring the entire globe under the thrall of a very few power elite. They have already fired the first salvo of 2008 in their attempt to radio control California's thermostats. http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/11/america/calif.php --- <i>Forgive my ignorance...</i> Nein! There is no forgiveness in the upcoming World Order! You shall be driven into the work pits, your yammering silenced forever! — …but what does “woo” stand for?

The World Order Organization, the main ubercorporation backed group that is working secretly to bring the entire globe under the thrall of a very few power elite.

They have already fired the first salvo of 2008 in their attempt to radio control California’s thermostats.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/11/america/calif.php

— Forgive my ignorance…

Nein! There is no forgiveness in the upcoming World Order! You shall be driven into the work pits, your yammering silenced forever!

]]> By: Philip http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/01/12/medical-blog-now-online/#comment-63175 Philip Sun, 13 Jan 2008 06:00:51 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/01/12/medical-blog-now-online/#comment-63175 Forgive my ignorance but what does "woo" stand for? Philip Forgive my ignorance but what does “woo” stand for?

Philip

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