This is a list of key posts and pages other than my regular short comments in order to make them easier to find.
Standalone Pages
Homeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions — by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1842)
This essay was presented as two lectures to the Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge in 1842 and was reproduced in Examining Holistic Medicine (Prometheus Books, 1985). The author achieved prominence as a physician, poet, and humorist. This essay is also available in a mobi-edition I prepared for the Kindle. Downloadable here.
Alternative Medicine
This post is in Norwegian, and is related to the 2011 campaign of the Humanist Society for critical thinking in relation to alternative medicine and other types of questionable services. Posted on April 9th, 2011
Pages & Key Posts
Page updated on October 17th 2011
This is a list of key posts and pages other than my regular short comments in order to make them easier to find.
Standalone Pages
This essay was presented as two lectures to the Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge in 1842 and was reproduced in Examining Holistic Medicine (Prometheus Books, 1985). The author achieved prominence as a physician, poet, and humorist.
This essay is also available in a mobi-edition I prepared for the Kindle. Downloadable here.
Science and Skepticism
Why do people cherrypick science to support wacky ideas?
Single Posts
This post is in Norwegian, and is related to the 2011 campaign of the Humanist Society for critical thinking in relation to alternative medicine and other types of questionable services. Posted on April 9th, 2011