21 October 2012 by Scott Gavura
Tonight at 9pm EDT (find your time/date) will be first Skeptic North Google+ Hangout. Join us for a discussion of skepticism and science, with our endearing Canadian accents. You can watch the Hangout live here, and if you missed it, it’s embedded below: More questions? See our Google+ page. To interact with contributors during the [...]
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11 August 2010 by Erik Davis
As a relatively young site, we haven’t focused too much on generating traffic for Skeptic North. The philosophy here has been to publish high quality, informative articles and let that be the draw. So we were somewhat surprised yesterday when we saw a 5x increase in our visitor stats. Turns out, our last two articles [...]
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21 July 2010 by Kim Hebert
Greetings gentle readers, With the continuing improvements being made to the site, we have significantly modified our site design. Those of you who follow via RSS may want to mosey on over to explore a bit and give some love to Skeptic North contributors Erik Davis and Max Morin for their collaboration on this project. [...]
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26 May 2010 by Kim Hebert
Hello gentle readers, I have a bit of housekeeping to announce. We have recently changed hosting services. This means that any of you following by a blog aggregator or feed (such as Google Reader) will have to update the address from which you’re following us. The new post feed is http://www.skepticnorth.com/feed/ and for comments it’s [...]
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23 May 2010 by Kim Hebert
Hello gentle readers, You may notice some interruptions, commenting issues, or otherwise weird happenings over the next 24 hours as we change our hosting service. Your patience will be rewarded with a brand spanking new look. Thank you. Skeptic North Editors
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30 December 2009 by Nathan Hinman
Wow, here we are at the end of the year and what a year it has been! Skeptic North is just under 3 months old now, but already has gathered many great accolades from the skeptical community and beyond. Starting with a meeting of Canadians from across the country at The Amazing Meeting 7, this [...]
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20 November 2009 by Kim Hebert
We busy little bees have been doing our bee dance all over the place lately. First off, thanks a buzz to Phil Plait for giving a shout out to Skeptic North this week and especially for linking Scott’s great post about naturopaths in Ontario potentially gaining prescribing rights (for completeness, also see Steve’s follow-up). This [...]
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27 October 2009 by Steve Thoms
Allow me to play happy-editor for a moment, and polish a few laurels. In less than one month, we have made our presence felt on a major, mainstream media outlet! Twice! The National Post ran a couple of stories relating to the recent post of our own science-based pharmacist, Scott Gavura, about the Autism One [...]
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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
