On November 28, three members of ASR’s Steering Committee — David Bailey and Lisa Johnson — attended the Whole Life Expo at the Convention Centre in Toronto. The expo is billed as “Canada’s largest showcase of natural health, alternative medicine, and eco-friendly lifestyles.”
Skeptics chair survives ‘homeopathic suicide’
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December 14, 2007
Filed under: Alternative Medicine,News
Filed under: Alternative Medicine,News
Skeptics Canada chair Eric McMillan says he feels just fine.
Some might be surprised he is even alive—a week after publicly downing the entire contents of three containers of homeopathic remedies, including a supposed arsenic alum.
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Water memory tests all wet: A reassessment of the Benveniste experiments by a D.V.M.
An issue of Ontario Skeptic contained a letter from Paul Greenwood, (“Science is open to radical, new ideas”) reporting on the “water memory” experiments of Dr. J. Benveniste, and offering the publication of these experiments as evidence of the willingness of the scientific community to examine new and unconventional ideas.
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What’s so natural about naturopathy?
Part of “Pseudoscience A to Z”, a series of articles in the Skeptics Canada newsletter.
Naturopathy and its associated practices are well known to skeptics, and little description is needed here, but for those who are interested in an in-depth analysis, try www.naturowatch.org/general/beyerstein.html by the late Dr. Barry Beyerstein, a skeptic and biopsychologist at Simon Fraser University.
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Staring down iridology
The New-Age ‘science’ of reading eyes doesn’t work—but there may be a speck of truth in it.
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Complementary and alternative medicine
From OSSCI’s Special Interest Group on Alternative Medicine:
North Americans spend over $30 billion annually on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) – from acupuncture to therapeutic touch. More than one-third of adults now use at least one form of “alternative” health care each year (where “alternative” is loosely defined as those practices which aren’t generally taught in medical schools or offered at most hospitals).1
Fatal chiropractic: The Lana Dale Lewis case
On September 12, 1996, four days after her 45th birthday, Ontario resident Lana Dale Lewis died after suffering a stroke.
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York University rejects chiropractic college
“Senate’s approval in principle has been negated.”
With these words in the Senate of York University on April 26th, 2001, the proposal for an affiliation with the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College (CMCC) expired without so much as a whimper. The six-year nightmare was over.
Tags: Chiropractic, Education —