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Homeopathic elephants…
image from wikicommons People who know about me within the skeptical community know that I am no friend of homeopathy. However, there are some cases where the sheer stupidity of an idea can limit the...
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Rubber bands on Groupon – Redux
The skeptical movement is all about consumer protection, especially when people are being ripped off with woo-related paraphernalia. I’ve mentioned balance bands being sold on group-buy websites twice...
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Debunking the drug store: Stodal
For those of you who aren’t aware, I am on a mission to debunk at least a small part of Shoppers Drug Mart. This time, it’s Boiron’s Stodal cough mixture. I hadn’t heard of Stodal before. Apparently...
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Correactology – a very Canadian woo
I was carrying out some fieldwork in northern Ontario last summer, which involved trips to Sudbury, Sault Ste Marie and North Bay. Each day while staying in Sault Ste Marie, we would drive past a...
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A skeptical take on allergy testing
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!! (photo by H. Zell) This is the second of three segments that I presented on The Reality Check, Canada’s weekly skeptical podcast. On episode #205, I talked about allergy testing....
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Is Correactology just chiropractic in a funny hat?
Correactology: it’s all about feet, apparently… I’ve blogged about Correactology before, and that post has been pretty popular (for one of my posts, anyway…) so I thought I would revisit the topic....
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Climate change denial: my part in its downfall
In March 2012 I was involved with a project that sought to make public some poor science that was being taught at a Canadian university. I have been busy with other things since then (like getting a...
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Climate change denial: a response to some criticism
This is my second post on the climate change project (see my earlier piece on the background to the story). In this post I’ll talk briefly about some of the negative response that was raised to the...
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Climate change denial: my experience with the media
This is my third post relating to a project that looked at climate change denial as it was being taught in a Canadian university (see here for background, and here for response to some criticism). We...
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Climate change denial: advice for skeptical projects
To round-out this quick series on the climate denial project, I thought I would reflect on some of the aspects of the project in the context of skeptical activism. There are a wide range of these...
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