24 February 2014 by Michael Kruse
Elizabeth May, the leader of the Green Party of Canada has been pushing for the adoption of a national Lyme disease strategy in Canada. Her private member’s bill, Bill C-442, outlines the urgent need for more up-to-date testing and treatment. In as much as acute Lyme disease, infection by the bacteria Borrelia borgdorferi*, is a […]
Posted in Alternative Medicine, Canada, Health Policy, Medical Conditions0 Comments
06 February 2014 by Michael Kruse
In a recent article for the Globe and Mail, self-styled health-guru Bryce Wylde has stuck his foot in it again. In an article entitled Eight easy, natural ways to keep the flu at bay (without leaving home) Wylde has proven that the only thing he can do without leaving home is make up dangerous health […]
Posted in Alternative Medicine, Media, Skepticism, Vaccines3 Comments
04 February 2014 by Gem Newman
Dr. W. Gifford-Jones, a prolific syndicated pseudonymous newspaper columnist, has written yet another article on the purported dangers of “radiation” from electronic devices. Well known to Canadian skeptics for advocating placebo cures, blaming “dirty electricity” for a host of common ailments, and promoting accusations that Health Canada is “terrorizing” the proprietors of health food stores, […]
Posted in Featured, Health, Skepticism4 Comments
07 December 2013 by John Underhay
Just a year ago a paper by Gilles-Eric Séralini published in the Journal of Food and Chemical Toxicology, Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize created a stir in the anti-GMO community. It was touted around the world as the definitive proof that GMOs caused cancer, just as many […]
Posted in Diet and Nutrition, Environment, Featured, Science, Skepticism5 Comments
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
How I lost 40 lbs doing everything wrong
Class Action Lawsuit Filed against Homeopathy Manufacturer Boiron and Shoppers Drug Mart
Getting Skeptical of the Dog Whisperer
Dr. Oz, Bryce Wylde, and the Canadian Law Against "False or Misleading News"
Anti-Wifi Group Granted Ability to File Representative Complaint with B.C. Human Rights Tribunal
Chronic Lyme Disease Creeps into Green Party Bill
Bryce Wylde’s Bad Flu Advice
Does Dr. Gifford-Jones Understand Science?
Séralini Paper Retracted – GMOs do not cause cancer in Rats
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
DOUBTING THOMAS: I don't know if anyone else pointed this out, but ...
Carolyn Thomas: Hello Gem
And speaking of W. Gifford-Jones MD . ....
Lorne: Further to this article although the info deals wi...
Roger: I guess this is the link?
http://www.theglobean...
Pender: I had a good laugh at the use of the headline in t...
