15 October 2013 by Shawn Brooks
With the recent release of the latest report by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) there has been a cluster of news articles and television timeslots devoted to climate change in the Canadian media over the past couple of weeks. Anthony Farnell, a meteorologist with Global News wrote a piece about the IPCC’s latest […]
Posted in Canada, Critical Thinking, Environment, Logic and Fallacies, Media, Reviews, Science, Skepticism9 Comments
27 September 2013 by Sara E. Mayhew
Legend of the Ztarr is a sword-and-sandals skeptical-themed manga epic that I’ve been writing and illustrating as my main publishing project. Recently, the popular crowd-funding site, Kickstarter, made itself open to Canadian creators, making it possible for me to launch the Legend of the Ztarr Kickstarter, which aims to create a print edition of Volume […]
11 September 2013 by John Underhay
This is the follow up to my previous article where a naturopath makes some rather extreme suggestions for a mother concerned about her 11 year old son. In this instalment, she tries to sell a number of her products to address the issues she imagines this child might be struggling with. Addressing an article like […]
Posted in Alternative Medicine, Diet and Nutrition, Featured, Skepticism6 Comments
10 September 2013 by Michael Kruse
The debate over the licensing of dubious products by Health Canada heated up over the weekend this week with an article published in the Toronto Star on Friday. The article, by NYU med student Nathan Kunzler and NYU medical ethics professor Dr. Arther Caplan, suggests that Health Canada’s continued approval of bogus homeopathic “nosodes” may […]
Posted in Canada, Health, Health Canada Approves..., Health Policy, Medicinal Advertising7 Comments
04 September 2013 by Michael Kruse
Once more, Frank Clegg and the BC based Citizens for Safe Technology (C4ST) have shown that they will not let science get in the way of scaring children and families. This past Tuesday, the start of school for most Ontario children, C4ST was positioned outside of a school in Mississauga handing out pamphlets warning children and […]
Posted in Media, Ontario, Pseudoscience, Skepticism5 Comments
02 September 2013 by Gem Newman
A news article from the Irish Independent has been making the rounds these last few days. With the cheery title of “Wave goodbye to global warming, GM and pesticides” this (almost) unbelievably credulous bit of reportage claims that a new technology developed in Ireland will solve pretty well every modern-day agricultural woe. “But how?” you […]
Posted in Environment, Featured, Pseudoscience, Skepticism2 Comments
26 August 2013 by Michael Kruse
One thing I find myself doing on a daily basis in my job as a paramedic is telling stories. Not only is it a way of relaying information about my patients when transferring care to another health care practitioner, but it is essential in the way I continue to learn at work. How other medics […]
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21 August 2013 by Gem Newman
Where’s My Jetpack is an occasional segment on Life, the Universe & Everything Else, a podcast produced by the Winnipeg Skeptics and the Humanists, Atheists, and Agnostics of Manitoba. This segment will air on 25 August 2013, as part of Episode 64. For decades now, scientists have been promising us untold marvels, from jetpacks to […]
Posted in Diet and Nutrition, Environment7 Comments
19 August 2013 by Michael Kruse
this post is an expanded version of this post that appeared on the Huffington Post A new petition has surfaced concerning the scope of practice of Naturopaths in Ontario. The Ontario Association of Naturopathic Doctors (OAND) is collecting signatures to support a rather vague demand that the Ontario health minister Deb Mathews ensure that naturopathic […]
Posted in Alternative Medicine, Health Policy, Medicine, Ontario, Skepticism2 Comments
16 August 2013 by John Underhay
In my local newspaper, a naturopath has an advice column that sometimes contains a few grains of good advice, but mostly consists of free advertisement for her services and a bit of scaremongering. An example is this this week’s column. [quotations from the naturopath's article are bolded] Question: Last year my nine-year-old son’s teacher described him […]
Posted in Alternative Medicine, Featured, Skepticism2 Comments
Why Anthony Farnell’s Climate Change Report is Flawed
Launching a Skeptical-themed Manga Series
The Naturopath in the Newspaper part II
NHP Licensing by Health Canada Ignores Reality
C4ST and Frank Clegg Spreading WiFi Fear
Irish Company Solves World Hunger, Climate Change, Small Chickens
Stories and Medicine
Where’s My Lab-grown Meat?
Naturopaths Petition for More Prescribing Rights
Naturopathy in the Newspaper
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