25 April 2013 by Erik Davis
About a year ago, I had my first attack of gout. It sucked. It came on during the weekend we were moving into our house, and I was convinced I’d somehow broken my big toe in the move. I’d dropped a box on it or rolled a dolly over it or something — I must [...]
Posted in Alternative Medicine, Diet and Nutrition, Featured, Health, Medical Conditions, Skepticism4 Comments
30 August 2011 by Dianne Sousa
Yesterday I found my way to fitnessgoop.com, a website for “Healthy and Inspired Living”. They feature articles from “health experts” touting the virtues of homeopathic travel vaccines and other similar topics of dubious merit. The recently posted article that caught my attention was one titled “Could electro-magnetic frequencies be to blame for allergies?” The author, Rich Ralph, [...]
Posted in Alternative Medicine, Canada, Health, Medical Conditions, Medicinal Advertising, Skepticism11 Comments
24 August 2011 by Scott Gavura
Enjoy this oldie but still relevant PSA from the FDA. (Email readers may need to click through to see the video.) Of course in Canada, we’d call them “Zed Rays” not “Zee Rays”. And these days, some want to call it “Non-Allopathic“, instead of quackery. Source
Posted in Medical Conditions, Pseudoscience, Skepticism4 Comments
10 August 2011 by Rob Tarzwell
This is a guest post from Dr. Rob Tarzwell. Dr. Tarzwell is a nuclear medicine specialist (in training) at UBC in Vancouver, and is on the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. He is a CFI advisor. Vancouver’s Georgia Straight, no stranger to willfully stupid incredulity on science matters, has once [...]
Posted in British Columbia, Environment, Medical Conditions6 Comments
09 August 2011 by Kim Hebert
Should governments spend health care dollars on naturopathic medicine, acupuncture, and hypnotherapy, all in the name of “integrative” cancer care? If you live in British Columbia, your government has answered “yes”. This past June the BC provincial government [pdf] announced new funding for five “integrative cancer care centres” in the province. The private provider, Inspire [...]
Posted in Alternative Medicine, British Columbia, Health Policy, Medical Conditions, Pseudoscience8 Comments
06 June 2011 by Michael Kruse
In my final update, I just wanted to point out some of the conflicts between the public and technology that have ensued since the Simcoe County, Ontario, as well as discuss a couple of studies that did not get a lot of attention but were interesting, none the less. WiFi and Cell Phone Towers Since [...]
Posted in British Columbia, Canada, Medical Conditions, Ontario, Skepticism10 Comments
10 March 2011 by Erik Davis
This story wasn’t picked up by the mainstream media, so unless you follow right-wing U.S. blogs, you probably missed the news last month that U.S. Environment Protection Agency head Lisa Jackson has found the cause of autism. It’s not genes, vaccines, or freezer mums – all this time it’s been hiding in plain sight in [...]
Posted in Environment, Health, Health Policy, Medical Conditions, Skepticism2 Comments
24 January 2011 by Erik Davis
I came down with a nasty cold before the holidays – so bad that I briefly thought I had the flu, and was cursing myself for having waited so long to get the flu shot, which I’d received just before the symptoms began. Amidst all the sniffling and groaning and self-pitying, it occurred to me [...]
Posted in Alternative Medicine, Diet and Nutrition, Health, Medical Conditions, Medicinal Advertising, Skepticism, Vaccines27 Comments
25 November 2010 by Kim Hebert
About 12.5% of Canadians are using complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)…or are they? CAM practitioners have been making gains in the Canadian Health System (for example, naturopaths in Ontario were last year given the right to prescribe certain medications) and homeopathic, herbal, and other CAM products line pharmacy shelves with questionable approval from Health Canada. Alt [...]
Posted in Alternative Medicine, Canada, Health, Medical Conditions, Science1 Comment
24 September 2010 by Jeff Orchard
Remember the hysteria last May? Many vocal parents were convinced that Pampers Dry-Max diapers were causing their babies’ rashes. I blogged on it. Well, on September 4, 2010, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Health Canada published a statement regarding the alleged link between Pampers Dry-Max diapers and baby-bum rashes. You might be [...]
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Crack Your Back instead of a Vial of Vaccine?
Toronto Media, false balance, and the lack of evidence for claims about MIA vet John Hartley Robertson
How Western journalists in Vietnam and POW NGOs were not fooled by tales of MIA Vet back from the dead
Did a Canadian filmmaker find a left behind Vietnam vet or did credulous Toronto media give new life to an old scam?
How I cured my gout without medication
