Did you ever wish for something and have it come true, or sit on the edge of your seat with a good luck charm during a major sports event, willing the game to swing to your team’s favour, and have it actually pay off? Have you ever won the lottery (no matter how small the pay off) based on your own “lucky” set of numbers? (more…)

Recently the Environmental Working Group released a report on sunscreen, recommending only 39 of 500 sunscreens investigated. The report has been picked up by media outlets and now sunscreen is being touted as cancer-causing and hormone-disrupting. Let’s examine some of the issues and concerns the report raises.

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The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (1995), by
Christopher Hitchens

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I’ve been looking at different complex systems lately; I’m becoming more and more fascinated with a term called “Emergence.” It’s when you perceive a complex and beautiful pattern from a huge amount of individual, simple objects guided by simple rules.

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James Randi came out of the closet last month and I speak for the Association for Science and Reason when I say, “Congratulations, Randi!”

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“Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.”
- Francis Bacon, Of Death

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On Sunday, November 29, early in the morning, Dave Bailey and I stood outside of the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto to hand out brochures about homeopathy and display some clever signs decrying the Natural Health Products Symposium taking place inside.

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