28 March 2011 by Erik Davis
Last year, I took a look at a product called ProstaCaid, which bills itself as “a comprehensive prostate formula that targets prostate cancer and promotes healthy prostate cells.” The product caught my eye after its creator tweeted about “Research on new prostate formula that naturally combats #prostatecancer!” but when I checked the data it came [...]
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03 November 2010 by Erik Davis
Welcome to Health Canada Approves… where we ask you to determine which products have been licensed by Health Canada’s Natural Health Products Directorate. I took a brief hiatus last week to finish up my series on magical thinking, but am back in the saddle and ready to discuss the results from our latest poll: A not-quite-filibuster-proof [...]
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20 October 2010 by Erik Davis
Welcome to Health Canada Approves… where we ask you to determine which products have been licensed by Health Canada’s Natural Health Products Directorate. Here are the results from last week’s poll. I guess I wasn’t fooling anyone. Fact is, I had eaten some particularly delicious toro the night before and thought, “now this should be [...]
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13 October 2010 by Erik Davis
Welcome to Health Canada Approves… where we ask you to determine which products have been licensed by Health Canada’s Natural Health Products Directorate. Here are the results from last week’s poll. It was a dead heat this week, with the fictional Bhagavad Vitae losing out to Kripps Heal-All — Natural Health Product Number 80001502 — [...]
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06 October 2010 by Erik Davis
Welcome to Health Canada Approves… where we ask you to determine which products have been licensed by Health Canada’s Natural Health Products Directorate. Here are the results from last week’s poll. As the saying goes, you can’t make an anti-depressant out of a hound’s ear. Well, maybe that’s not exactly how the saying goes, but [...]
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29 September 2010 by Erik Davis
Welcome to Health Canada Approves… where we ask you to determine which products have been licensed by Health Canada’s Natural Health Products Directorate. Here are the results from last week’s poll. Sorry folks, while there are many anti-oxidants in the NHPD database, Photosyn 12 is not one of them. To be honest, I’m not even [...]
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22 September 2010 by Erik Davis
Welcome to Health Canada Approves… where we ask you to determine which products have been licensed by Health Canada’s Natural Health Products Directorate. Here are the results from last week’s poll. Buzzardskill 22 was the clear favourite this week, but alas, it is no testament to ancient Anishinaabe wisdom. The actual approved product is Plumbum [...]
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15 September 2010 by Erik Davis
Welcome to Health Canada Approves… where we ask you to determine which products have been licensed by Health Canada’s Natural Health Products Directorate. Here are the results from last week’s poll. It was a dead heat this week, with Homeoslim just edging out the evocative — and fake — Mighty Qi. Homeslim can be found [...]
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08 September 2010 by Erik Davis
Welcome to Health Canada Approves… where we ask you to determine which products have been licensed by Health Canada’s Natural Health Products Directorate. Here are the results from last week’s poll. Seems most of you found fact stranger than fiction, because the correct answer is Vomitusheel, Natural Health Product Number 80014075. Vomitusheel is a six ingredient [...]
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01 September 2010 by Erik Davis
Welcome to Health Canada Approves... where we ask you to determine which products have been licensed by Health Canada’s Natural Health Products Directorate. Here are the results from last week’s poll. The correct answer is Devil’s Claw Secondary Tuber, Natural Health Product Number 80000219. We decided to start off easy on Health Canada, and picked [...]
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More consequences of calling sugar pills “safe and effective”
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Toronto Media, false balance, and the lack of evidence for claims about MIA vet John Hartley Robertson
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Did a Canadian filmmaker find a left behind Vietnam vet or did credulous Toronto media give new life to an old scam?
