Swift, named for Jonathan Swift, is the JREF's daily blog, featuring content from James Randi, the JREF staff, and other featured authors.
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Written by Dr. Harriet Hall
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Here is a recap of the stories that appeared last week at Science-Based Medicine, a multi-author skeptical blog that separates the science from the woo-woo in medicine.
Blame and Magical Thinking: The consequences of the autism “biomed” movement (David Gorski) http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/blame-and-magical-thinking-the-consequences-of-the-autism-biomed-movement/ The vaccine/autism myth refuses to die; it continues to fuel costly, useless, and potentially harmful treatments. The new propaganda film “Canary Kids” characterizes all kinds of health problems as “almost autism” and attributes them to vaccines. Parents are being persuaded to blame themselves for their children’s autism and to feel guilty for having allowed them to be vaccinated.
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Written by DJ Grothe
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Mark Hoofnagle, the influential blogger who is one of the folks who came up with the concept of “denialism,” and who writes at National Geographic’s Science Blog on the topic, has an interesting post about what happens when conspiracy theorists turn their attention to those who theorize about conspiracy theorists. He reports on the paper by Stephan Lewandowsky et. al. in the journal Frontiers in Psychology about how conspiracy theorists react to being the focus of academic and journalistic scrutiny, coming up with new conspiracy theories in the process.
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Written by Dr. Steven Novella
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On a recent driving trip I realized at one point that I was completely relying on my GPS device to tell me, turn by turn, where to go. If my GPS lost its signal I would have no idea where I was or how to proceed. In the past I would navigate with maps and I would have a pretty good idea of the roads between me and my destination. Now I mindlessly do whatever my cell phone tells me to do.
Is something similar happening in modern medicine? There is no question that our modern technology has given us powerful diagnostic tools, but has this atrophied our most important tool of all, our brains?
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Written by James Randi
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There exists an online discussion forum titled “Parapsychology and alternative medicine forum” focused on the Skeptiko podcast, which has previously featured JREF president D.J. Grothe as a guest, where the interview focused on the JREF’s Million Dollar Challenge. On this forum, there is a lengthy discussion about me and the JREF. As we might expect, I seem to be the classical “thorn in the side” for them, a convenient focus for their ire and their fear.
I’ve selected the first two full pages of their complaints, criticisms and comments, and over the next week or so, I’ll make my observations on them, correcting the spelling grammar, and punctuation – for clarity – and removing any names found there.
Since I found that the first 14 items I came upon flaunt most of the misconceptions held about me and the Foundation, dealing with those just may clear the air a bit in this respect. These items are taken in the order they came up on the site. There are 14…
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Written by Kyle Hill
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SkyMall bugs me. It bugs me not just because it sells a helmet lined with LEDs that is supposed to regrow hair for $700. SkyMall bugs me because of how it claims to handle the bed bug.
Bed bug proboscis/CDC
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