Giving a lecture on old-timey quack medicines tomorrow [View all]

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Some of the DU veterans might remember that I used to serve as President of the North Texas Skeptics before I became a Democratic precinct chair. NTS is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, so I felt the need to step down in order to avoid a conflict of interest.

Tomorrow afternoon, I'll be visiting my fellow skeptics once again and bringing part of my collection of antique medicine bottles for a little bit of skeptical show-and-tell and discussing the patent medicine industry in America.

Wish I had a picture of the bottle collection to show you - I've got Radam's Microbe Killer, Clark Stanley's Snake Oil Liniment, Aletris Cordial, a few Healey and Bigelow Kickapoo Indian medicines, and so on. Some of these bottles still contain a little of the medicine to this day, but I'm not about to try any of them.