15 October 2010 by Melany Hamill
Toronto and Winnipeg are not the only cities to be holding SkeptiCamps this October. Vancouver will also be hosting our fourth SkeptiCamp event on the 23rd. We still have space, so register now! You can help promote our event by sharing our webpage, or putting up some posters. We still have some room for speakers, [...]
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04 October 2010 by Ethan Clow
Field Agent 09345 Report: Commanding Officers, Judge and Advocates, Disciplinary Committee… With regards to the investigation into professional negligence of myself, Field Agent 09345, and aforementioned Field Report now under review by this honourable committee, I should like to offer some justification on my behalf. This is not offered to be an excuse on my [...]
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24 September 2010 by Kim Hebert
British Columbian taxpayers saw a bad situation turn worse recently. Not only is the provincial Ministry of Health subsidizing acupuncture, but practitioners are administering other alternative-health treatments and falsely billing them as acupuncture. For example: A staff member at the Ha Chinese Medicine Wellness Clinic in Richmond said they would apply the subsidy to Chinese [...]
Posted in Alternative Medicine, British Columbia, Health9 Comments
21 August 2010 by Ethan Clow
The other day I was handing out flyers outside the Marriot Hotel in downtown Vancouver encouraging people to think critically about the event they were about to see. That event was a group reading by self-proclaimed psychic and medium John Edward. The event was a success, we handed out a number of flyers, engaged a [...]
Posted in British Columbia, Critical Thinking, Skepticism10 Comments
27 July 2010 by Ethan Clow
Over the last week or so I’ve been mulling over some of the things I learned at The Amazing Meeting in Las Vegas. For a great account check out Jonathan Abrams report here. There were lots of great tidbits of information about how to research and plan skeptical events, get accurate data, separate the woo [...]
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10 June 2010 by Ethan Clow
Recently Deepak Chopra came to Vancouver to speak about his new age spiritualism involving quantum healing and other mystical healing methods like mind over matter. Chopra is well known to the skeptical community. James Randi suggested that Deepak Chopra is “the richest quack that I know of” (he said that when I interviewed him on [...]
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02 June 2010 by Ethan Clow
On June 4th, Deepak Chopra, new age alt med practitioner will be giving a talk in Vancouver at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Chopra takes scientific terms like quantum mechanics and warps the meaning to suit his pseudo-scientific/mysticism claims to give them the veneer of legitimacy. Not only have his claims been documented to be wrong [...]
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23 February 2010 by Ethan Clow
Sometimes living in a city like Vancouver where alternative medicine enjoys almost as much credibility as science based medicine, (a search of “alternative medicine in Vancouver brought 222 hits on yellowpages.ca) one can start to feel rather embattled by pseudo-science. It can be a very frustrating feeling. For skeptics like myself, you almost take it [...]
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08 February 2010 by Rob Tarzwell
Today’s guest blog comes courtesy of Psychiatrist, Dr. Rob Tarzwell, M.D. Anyone interested in writing guest blog should submit a proposal to the editor, skepticnorth [at] gmail [dot] com Guest Post – Rob Tarzwell: The Naturopath Identity Crisis In BC, naturopaths were granted prescribing privileges in April 2009. Ontario has just followed suit. The [...]
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16 December 2009 by Kennedy Goodkey
It is weeks like last one that make a person understand how it sometimes seems like the universe is listening. On Tuesday at Skeptics in the Pub a recurring theme crept into our conversations. It was something that has been on my mind for a while; the imaginary politics people attach to skeptics. Skepticism itself [...]
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