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Skeptical Fails and Wins This Week
Hello Skeptifans. My inbox was absolutely overflowing with Fails and Wins this week. Thanks to all of you who sent me links, and especially to those regulars who I see in my inbox every week. Doctor’s...
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Hello skeptifans. March is a weather-diverse month in Canada. Some of us are walking around in light jackets enjoying the sunshine, and some of us are braving the snow and -20C cold. Wherever you are,...
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Skeptical Fails and Wins This Week
Hello Skeptifans. This week’s Fails and Wins in the media were all about vaccines. I only wish that there weren’t any stories related to MMR, but unfortunately we are going to be battling the effects...
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Skeptical Fails and Wins This Week
Hello Skeptifans. Here are the Fails and Wins this week. Which is more dangerous, the phone or the sunshine? Where’s the Panic Button on This Phone? Michael sent in this story. This excellent article...
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Skeptical Fails and Wins this Week
Bonjour skeptifans. Here are the media Fails and Wins you sent me last week. Because putting bull crap in a flowchart makes it sciency! Dear quacks..you can't just put arrows from one box to...
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Crashing the Pox Party
Source There has been much abuzz about “pox parties” – the practice of parents getting a bunch of unvaccinated kids together with an infected one (pick one, really, though chicken pox is the focus of...
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Skeptical Fails and Wins This Week
Hey there skeptifans. Here are the media Fails and Wins you sent me last week. Does this look tasty to you? ‘Proof’ that homeopathy doesn’t work Blogger Darwin Harmless sent in this link. It’s a win...
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The opposite of stumped: 9 unanswerable anti-vax questions answered
9 Questions That Stump Every Pro-Vaccine Advocate and Their Claims found its way onto the Facebook page for the Winnipeg Skeptics when a member’s friend posted it, along with the qualification “if you...
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Antivax 101: Tactics and Tropes of the Antivaccine Movement
This is the first of a series of posts adapting a presentation made at The Ontario Public Health Convention in April, 2011. The presentation, “Fighting in the Trenches: Countering Anti-Vaccine...
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Scientific skepticism about vaccine safety: you’re doing it wrong
I don’t know what it is about vaccination that attracts so much vitriol, but in light of the recent pertussis outbreak which has claimed the life of an Albertan infant, I am loath to let anti-vaccine...
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NHP Licensing by Health Canada Ignores Reality
The debate over the licensing of dubious products by Health Canada heated up over the weekend this week with an article published in the Toronto Star on Friday. The article, by NYU med student Nathan...
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Bryce Wylde’s Bad Flu Advice
In a recent article for the Globe and Mail, self-styled health-guru Bryce Wylde has stuck his foot in it again. In an article entitled Eight easy, natural ways to keep the flu at bay (without leaving...
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Homeopaths Respond to CBC Marketplace
On Friday, 28 November 2014, CBC Marketplace aired an episode (which I recommend watching before reading this) in which they sent parents and their babies to homeopaths for vaccine advice. They were...
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