Insolence - Poisonous Philosophy (2000)
2008-01-19 20:35:00 Band: InsolenceAlbum: Poisonous PhilosophyYear: 2000Genre: Alternative Rock/Crossover/Nu-Metal/Rapcore-/ReggaeOrigin: San José, California (USA)Web: http://www.insolence1.com/MySpa-ce: http://www.myspace.com/insolenc-eoneTrackList:01. Gaffled02. 3rd I Satellite03. Head 2 Head04. Natural High05. Terrorist Dub06. Poisonous Philosophy07. Mad Science08. Last Rights09. Jump Up10. Level 111. Revolution12. Sativa13. InvasionDownload: MediaFire (65.77MB)
Insolence - Universal (1998)
2008-01-19 15:34:00 Band: InsolenceAlbum: UniversalYear: 1998Genre: Alternative Rock/Crossover/Nu-Metal/Rapcore-/ReggaeOrigin: San José, California (USA)Web: http://www.insolence1.com/MySpa-ce: http://www.myspace.com/insolenc-eoneTrackList:01. Theory02. Sick03. Built To Suffer04. Trava05. Bankrupt06. Can't Wake Up07. De Tox08. Thought You Knew09. Quest10. Lifted11. Distance12. GenocideDownload: MediaFire (73.54MB)
Your Friday Dose of Woo: Bouncing away the toxins [Respectful Insolence]
2007-12-07 17:02:00 After last week’s Your Friday Dose of Woo, which featured an amazingly extravagant bit of woo that took up 10,000 webpages of some of most densely-packed woo language that I’ve ever seen, I feel the need for a change of pace. It’s time to simplify this week. After all, if I were to do nothing but woo on the order of sympathetic vibratory physics, the Wand of Horus, quantum homeopathy, or DNA activation every week, your brain might well fry. And, if your brain didn’t fry, my brain would for subjecting myself to such material week after week. Every so often, I need just a little wafer to cleanse the palate, so to speak. Fortunately, I’ve found just the thing. Believe it or not, I used to like The Man Show. It just so happens that each episode of this show ended with girls on trampolines. It also just so happens that, besides exercise, trampolines can be used for most marvelous woo: Read the rest of this post… | Read the comments on this post&helli...
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The unbearable lightweightness of being David Kirby [Respectful Insolence]
2007-12-04 16:52:00 Remember how I speculated that appointing die-hard antivaccinationists to the new federal panel on autism research and policy would be a propaganda boon to the antivaccination movement and the mercury militia? Surprise, surprise! It’s already happening. Even less of a surprise, first off the mark to gloat is everybody’s favorite whore for the mercury militia appearing (as usual) in his favorite house organ of antivaccination propaganda, The Huffington Post. First, of course, he has to “frame” things to represent himself as the brave, brave iconoclast, fighting against those evil scientists who want to keep our children autistic by vaccinating the hell out of them: Read the rest of this post… | Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/194-961898/antivaccinationists_appo-inted_to_federal_1.php
One source of inefficiency in American health care [Respectful Insolence]
2007-12-01 17:00:00 The Buckeye Surgeon educates us with a case. In brief, it’s the case of an elderly woman with a clinical picture, including right upper quadrant pain and an elevated white blood cell count consistent with rip-roaring cholecystitis who was admitted to the medical service for her right upper quadrant pain. She underwent an ultrasound, which was consistent with rip-roaring cholecystitis, after which she was admitted to the medical service, which duly consulted the gastroenterology service. Then a CT scan was ordered, which showed a rip-roaring case of cholecystitis. Then the patient was bowel-prepped and underwent upper and lower endoscopy and the patient treated for gastritis. Then she underwent a cardiology consult, which failed to find a cardiac cause. Finally she underwent a HIDA scan, which is very specific for cholecystitis. And then the surgeon was called. This was a case about which a couple of old attendings in my residency program would have a sarcastic saying about, on...
Sid Schwab joins the party [Respectful Insolence]
2007-11-14 08:46:00 I was always wondering when he’d finally weigh in on alternative medicine, and now Sid has. It’s a slapdown worthy of Orac, Dr. R.W., or Panda Bear MD. Go forth and read it. Not quite as snarky as Orac (but, then, Sid’s a classy guy), but every bit as outraged. Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/184-513007/sid_schwab_joins_the_par-ty.php
Yankees lose, Indians win, and Orac is well-pleased [Respectful Insolence]
2007-10-09 22:15:00 The game ended too late last night, and I was too tired to do a quick celebratory post, but better late than never. In case you were wondering, Orac is pleased. Not as pleased as he would have been if it had been the Tigers, but pleased enough. Read the rest of this post… | Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/167-508858/yankees_lose_indians_win-_and_orac_is_wel.php
Hilary Swank ~ Promoting ‘Insolence’ Scent London
2007-09-29 19:18:00 Hilary Swank promoting new scent ‘Insolence’ at Selfridges in London. I like her outfit, but the shoes and bag don’t match.
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Now that’s the way you do it! [Respectful Insolence]
2007-09-05 11:02:00 Due to a death in the family, I have to go back into the vaults of the old blog for some more reruns. Regular blogging should resume in a day or two This particular post first appeared on June 16, 2005. One of the overarching themes of this blog has been skepticism in the claims of alternative medicine. Consequently, a recurring type of post has been the debunking of some claim or other made by the proponents of alternative medicine. Sometimes debunking these claims is like shooting fish in a barrel, allowing for humorous play with the concept, and sometimes the claims are a bit harder to debunk, requiring a more serious approach. In the end, however, the vast majority of altie claims turn out to be without a solid basis in science and without evidence of efficacy if you look at them with a critical eye. From these posts, some conclude that I’m hoplessly hostile and biased against alternative medicine, but such is not the case at all. I merely insist that the claims of altern...
Homeopathic ambulances? [Respectful Insolence]
2007-09-04 17:07:00 While I’ve been having a little fun with homeopathy today, I thought I’d show you just one other thing about the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital. Directly in front of the hospital, I noticed some words on the street. After taking a closer look, I was shocked and horrified. Take a look for yourself: Read the rest of this post… | Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/152-180817/homeopathic_ambulances.p-hp
An embarrassing critique of The Enemies of Reason [Respectful Insolence]
2007-09-04 11:03:00 A couple of weeks ago, before I went on vacation, the BBC aired a two-part documentary by Richard Dawkins entitled The Enemies of Reason. Part One dealt primarily with the paranormal and various New Age phenomena, while Part Two, which aired mere days before my London trip, dealt squarely with alternative medicine in an uncompromising fashion. One key segment of Part Two discussed the bizarre magical thinking that is known as homeopathy. Although I quibbled a bit about certain aspects of how Dawkins presented homeopathy, overall I thought it was the best deconstruction on video of the ridiculousness of the concepts behind homeopathy designed for a mass audience that I had ever seen, particularly the scene where Dawkins showed just how much dilution was required for a homeopathic remedy. Not surprisingly, homeopaths were none too pleased with Dawkins’ deconstruction. More on that in a moment, but first, so inspired was I by this bit of video skepticism, that when I was in Londo...
The fall of Ben Stein [Respectful Insolence]
2007-08-23 11:01:00 You know, even though I know he’s been a Republican talker for a long time, that he worked for the Nixon administration as a speechwriter and lawyer, I’ve always kind of liked Ben Stein. My wife and I used to like to watch Win Ben Stein’s Money, and he was quite amusing as the principal in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. He’s always come across as a pleasant doofus, even though I know that image appears to be carefully calculated one. Now I learn that he’s the narrator and a driving force behind a pro-”intelligent design” movie called Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, which is due to be released in February. It looks really, really bad. Read the rest of this post… | Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/147-311243/the_fall_of_ben_stein.ph-p
Too much coffee! [Respectful Insolence]
2007-08-15 11:01:00 Yikes! In my grant writing frenzy the last few days, this could easily have been me: Jasmine Willis, 17, developed a fever and began hyperventilating after drinking seven double espressos while working at her family’s sandwich shop. The student, of Stanley, County Durham, was taken to the University Hospital of North Durham, where doctors confirmed she had overdosed on caffeine. She has since made a full recovery and is now warning others about the dangers of excessive coffee drinking. Ms Willis, who had thought the coffees were single measures, said the effects were so severe that she began laughing and crying for no reason while serving customers at the shop. I was having palpitations, my heart was beating so fast and I thought I was going into shock Jasmine Willis She developed a fever and began struggling to breathe after being sent home by her father. Good thing I don’t drink expresso. I just drink regular coffee, which means I’d have had to drink an awful l...
Government-funded woo [Respectful Insolence]
2007-08-14 11:01:00 It’s that time of year again! Time for the one Center of the NIH dedicated to studying “remedies,” regardless of how scientifically implausible or lacking in evidence to support them, the National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) to put forth its budget request for FY 2008. What’s the bill for government-funded studies of woo? $121,699,000. Depressing. Let’s see what the possible justification is for sending $121 million on studying things such as homeopathy: Read the rest of this post… | Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/144-025373/governmentfunded_woo.php-
Your Friday Dose of Woo: A soothing footbath of woo [Respectful Insolence]
2007-08-10 11:01:00 After over a year of doing Your Friday Dose of Woo, I can’t believe I’ve never come across this one before. Sometimes there’s a bit of woo that comes my way that’s so off the wall, so unexpected, the claims for which are so unrelated to reality that it startles even me. Moreover, unlike truly over-the-top woo like quantum homeopathy, DNA activation, or the SCIO, this one is utterly brilliant in the simplicity of its concept. It also makes me wonder about whether certain alties have a thing about feet. We know they have a thing about “detoxification” (without, of course, ever being able to identify what these “toxins” that have to be removed might actually be). We even know that they’ve at least once combined a thing about feet with a thing for detoxification in the form of miracle foot patches. It shouldn’t come as any surprise, then, that someone has taken this concept to a whole new level: Read the rest of this post&hell...
Spot the flaw in the argument in this pitch… [Respectful Insolence]
2007-08-09 16:31:00 Somehow, I don’t know how, I managed to wind up on the mailing list of über-woomeister Dr. Joseph Mercola, who’s almost as bad as Mike Adams, only less blatantly crazy in pushing conspiracy theories. Yesterday, I received this pitch by e-mail: Read the rest of this post… | Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/142-462395/spot_the_flaw_in_the_arg-ument_in_this_pi.php
The Hand of Doom [Respectful Insolence]
2007-08-06 11:01:00 I hate flying these days. I’m almost certainly not alone in this dislike of what air travel has become. After all, between widespread flight cancellations and delays, service that would make even cell phone tech support seem attentive and pleasant by comparison, and the necessary but degrading security gauntlet, in which old ladies are treated with the same level of suspicion as someone wearing an Osama bin Laden T shirt, that one has to run before boarding the plane, flying has become downright ugly. The only time it’s tolerable these days is on the rare occasion when I can score first class or business class. I used to rather like going to meetings for the chance to see colleagues and experience cities that I’ve never visited before, but lately it’s gotten to the point where most of the time I’d just rather stay home. Of course, if I stay home, then the meeting would lose out on hearing about my laboratory’s brilliant work; so I usually go. I ju...
Behe on the Colbert Report [Respectful Insolence]
2007-08-04 16:04:00 In case you haven’t seen it yet… Sad. I can’t believe Behe is still using the mousetrap analogy for “irreducible complexity” when the very concept has been so thoroughly debunked over the last several years. Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/140-696045/behe_on_the_colbert_repo-rt_1.php
Friday afternoon open thread [Respectful Insolence]
2007-08-03 16:17:00 So what do you do when you didn’t have time to write something new? Well, you could leave the blog blank, which is anathema to me) or you could do the time-honored space-filling technique valued by bloggers everywhere once they reach a certain level of traffic. Yep! It’s one of the very rare times for an open thread on Respectful Insolence. In fact, I can’t even remember the last time I did one of these. Don’t let Orac down. Take advantage of it and speak your piece! Or don’t, and let the tumbleweeds roll through the ol’ blog this afternoon, metaphorically speaking… Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/140-403833/friday_afternoon_open_th-read.php
How low will Wakefield supporters go? [Respectful Insolence]
2007-08-01 16:49:00 How low will Andrew Wakefield supporters go in protecting the discredited and disgraced doctor whose shoddy and biased research sparked an antivaccination hysteria that led to falling vaccination rates in the U.K. and the subsequent return of measles and mumps? This low. Yes, it’s a Wakefield apologist website. It misrepresents the science; whines about the hearings in the U.K. looking at Wakefield’s dubious science, unreported conflicts of interest, and parrots the antivaccination lies that the MMR vaccine and thimerosal on vaccines causse autism. In actuality, the purveyors of this minsinformation-packed website should be “crying shame” about their own woo-packed website. Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/139-680539/how_low_will_wakefield_s-upporters_go.php
A different take on Oscar the Kitty of Doom [Respectful Insolence]
2007-07-29 16:10:00 (LOL Oscar from Lauren.) While I expressed skepticism the other day regarding the media reports that a cat named Oscar could predict which patients at the nursing home in which he resides were within hours of death, some of you believed it, some even going so far as to speculate that not only could Oscar detect impending death but that he hangs out by the dying because he wants a snack. But none have gone so far as Mighty Ponygirl in speculating about Oscar’s true motivation. Personally, I like my explanation that it’s just confirmation bias better. It’s less–shall we say?–disturbing. I also tend to agree with Clark about the potentially pernicious effects that the belief among the nursing home staff in Oscar’s predictive ability could have on patient care. Another pernicious effect is that the staff now call the families of patients to whom Oscar pays attention to tell them that they should come in because their loved one’s death is imminen...
A chiropractic “adjustment” in New Jersey [Respectful Insolence
2007-07-20 15:31:00 Here’s a rather interesting wrinkle in the regulation of chiropractors. This time, it’s New Jersey: A recent state court decision has hundreds of chiropractors across the state bent out of shape because it sharply limits what they can legally do. And while the decision is being appealed to the state Supreme Court and state legislators have proposed amending state law to return the field to where it was, changes are not expected for months. In the meantime, the decision “definitely wiped out a source of income, because we were able to bill for the extremity adjustment before and now we can’t,” Ventnor chiropractor Michael T. Sherman said. “We can’t do it. It’s ridiculous. It’s ridiculous is what it is.” The U.S. government calls chiropractors medical professionals who treat patients with health problems associated with the body’s muscular, nervous and skeletal systems, especially the spine. Chiropractors frequently tre...
This blog is in mourning [Respectful Insolence]
2007-07-13 02:01:00 Here’s the reason why: Actor and voice artiste Peter Tuddenham has died at the age of 88 after a short illness. His vocal talents were used in Doctor Who for The Ark in Space, The Masque of Mandragora and Time and the Rani, but he will also be well-known to cult TV fans for providing the voices of Zen, Orac and Slave in Blake’s 7, which was created by Terry Nation. In addition, Tuddenham was in the Kaldor City audio spin-offs Occam’s Razor and Death’s Head, which were Doctor Who/Blake’s 7 crossovers produced by Magic Bullet. Tuddenham’s voice of Orac was perfect for the character. Combining arrogance, impatience with its human owners, along with sarcasm and a surprisingly sharp sense of humor (for a computer), Tuddenham made Orac an utterly believable character, even though the prop for Orac was nothing more than a clear Plexiglass box of blinking lights. Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-Scie...
Before paging systems… [Respectful Insolence]
2007-07-08 16:01:00 Given that my electronic leash is always with me and that ubiquitous pagers and cell phones make doctors reachable 24 hours a day, it’s amazing to contemplate a time when a PA system at a hospital was considered new and high tech: Personally, when I see such a system, I can’t help but think of the Three Stooges in Men In Black. Of course, when it comes to any paging system, be it a PA system or a pager, there are times when I feel like doing exactly what the Three Stooges did at the end of the short to the PA system that kept repeating, “Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard!” Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/131-702882/before_paging_systems_1.-php
Doctors and terror [Respectful Insolence]
2007-07-03 15:31:00 One of the things that I found most disturbing about the recent failed bombing attempts in London and the car attack in Glasgow, aside from the terrorism and potential for huge losses of life, is this: GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — British police focused Tuesday on at least four physicians with roots outside Britain - including a doctor seized at an Australian airport with a one-way ticket - in the investigation into failed car bombings in Glasgow and London. At least four of the eight suspects were identified as doctors from Iraq, Jordan and India. One of the doctors from India, 27-year-old Muhammad Haneef, was arrested late Monday at the international airport in the Australian city of Brisbane, where he was trying to board a flight with a one-way ticket late Monday, the Australian attorney general said. Prime Minister John Howard said a second doctor was being interviewed in Australia, and British media reported that at least two of the others detained were trainee physicians. Ma...
When you have $500 to throw away [Respectful Insolence]
2007-07-02 15:06:00 Some people just have too much money and too much time on their hands. I mean, why on earth would you do this after purchasing an iPhone, the cheapest of which is $499? This is just sheer stupidity; it doesn’t even show very well how the thing is put together because they basically just destroy it. These guys must be either really loaded to the point that throwing away $500 means nothing to them or they’re just plain dumb. (Via Gizmodo.) Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/129-813150/when_you_have_500_to_thr-ow_away_1.php
Poor Behe, now he’s in for it [Respectful Insolence]
2007-06-28 06:30:00 You may have noticed that I haven’t commented much on Michael Behe’s recent book, The Edge of Evolution, other than to bemoan its presence in the Evolution section of the University of Chicago Barnes & Noble. I have, however, read with some amusement some of the reviews. The most recent is one by–who else?–Richard Dawkins in the New York Times. Because it’s behind the Times Select pay wall, I’ll just give you a couple of the best quotes. First, he dismisses Behe’s most famous book, Darwin’s Black Box: Read the rest of this post… | Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/128-600675/poor_behe_now_hes_in_for-_it.php
I have this syndrome! [Respectful Insolence]
2007-06-25 16:01:00 Finally, there’s a word for a feeling that many people have no doubt experienced many times: Some call it “phantom vibration syndrome.” Others prefer “vibranxiety” — the feeling when you answer your vibrating cellphone, only to find it never vibrated at all. “It started happening about three years ago, when I first got a cellphone,” says Canadian Steven Garrity, 28, of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. “I’d be sitting on the couch and feel my phone start to vibrate, so I’d reach down and pull it out of my pocket. But the only thing ringing was my thigh.” Though no known studies have analyzed what may cause spontaneous buzzing, anecdotes such as Garrity’s ring true with the public. Spurred by curiosity, Garrity, a Web developer, described the recurring false alarms on his blog. The response was not imaginary: More than 30 cellphone users reported that they, too, experienced phantom vibrations. “I e...
The role of the crotch in rock history [Respectful Insolence]
2007-06-25 02:09:00 I can’t argue with this: An embodiment of the mystery, danger and freedom of the music itself, the crotch has occupied a central role in a stirring rock performance. Of course, the crotch today remains a valuable weapon in the rock arsenal, as exemplified by the current wave of tight pants bands rehashing the Kinks/The Who sound of the 60s and 70s. More and more women are also mobilizing their crotches as well for the good of the rock. Take Peaches, for example. In recent years, the famed Electroclash chanteuse has turned her crotch into something of a cottage industry for photos, song lyrics and album covers. Truly, the Chosen Crotch must indeed be Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin. None have come close since the 1970’s, although some have tried. However, I have to admit that I hope the author of the above fulfills the promise to discuss the “worst crotches in rock history.” OK, I know. Enough frivolity. I’ll get back to the usual topics of this blog in the...
This rating sounds about right [Respectful Insolence]
2007-06-23 15:01:00 This one’s been floating around ScienceBlogs and the blogosphere in general; so I thought, what the hell? (Oh, wait, did my use of the word “hell” affect my rating?) In any case, this sounds about right: Mingle2 - Online Dating You’ll be happy to know that I don’t really plan on trying to “evolve” to rate a PG-13 or R rating. I really see no need, although sometimes the comments probably earn such ratings. On the other hand, I won’t shy away from “adult” content if I consider it sufficiently important that I want to blog about it. Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/127-320972/this_rating_sounds_about-_right_1.php
More scientology madness: This time, John Travolta [Respectful Insolence]
2007-06-20 16:01:00 I’ve done my fair share of ranting about Scientology, be it about Tom Cruise’s aggressive and arrogant antipsychiatry nuttiness a couple of years ago or the very recent piece I wrote about the disturbing and idiotically conceived anti-psychiatry museum run by the Church of Scientology. The Church of Scientology is, of course, a target-rich environment, given the sheer nuttiness of it all. Indeed, there’d be nothing other than laughter from me if Scientology didn’t push a rabid anti-psychiatry pseudoscience in the name of religion and if it didn’t go after its critics with the tenacity of a rabid Rottweiler. Although, among famous Scientologists, Tom Cruise gets under my skin in a major way, given his intentionally confrontational and ignorant rants about psychiatry, John Travolta never bothered me that much. He always seemed a lot more genial and low-key and not nearly as obnoxious about his religion as Tom Cruise. True, I did once take him to task for ...
PZ and archy just ruined my day [Respectful Insolence]
2007-06-18 16:15:00 Thanks, archy and PZ. You just ruined my day. Really. If you thought that Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church. No matter what side of the abortion debate that you happen to come down on, surely you must find this paeon to the murderer Paul Hill as vile as I do. Here’s just a taste: Read the rest of this post… | Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/125-864617/pz_and_archy_just_ruined-_my_day.php |
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