Judy Matthews is an active 11-year-old girl who plays baseball and soccer. She is apparently happy and healthy. At least her mother thought so, until she took her daughter to a chiropractor in the Toronto area.
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Pediatric chiropractic found to be mostly quackery in newspaper investigation
Article by: Eric McMillan @ 3:15 pm | August 8, 2009
Filed under: Alternative Medicine
Article by: Eric McMillan @ 3:15 pm | August 8, 2009
Filed under: Alternative Medicine
Skeptics chair survives ‘homeopathic suicide’
Article by: Skeptics Canada @ 2:55 pm | December 14, 2007
Filed under: Alternative Medicine, News
Article by: Skeptics Canada @ 2:55 pm | December 14, 2007
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.
Article by: Howard J. Scrimgeour @ 3:20 pm | August 8, 2007
Filed under: Alternative Medicine
Article by: Howard J. Scrimgeour @ 3:20 pm | August 8, 2007
Filed under: Alternative Medicine
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?
Article by: Dave Bailey @ 3:18 pm |
Filed under: Alternative Medicine
Article by: Dave Bailey @ 3:18 pm |
Filed under: Alternative Medicine
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
Article by: Barbara Abramson @ 3:18 pm |
Filed under: Alternative Medicine
Article by: Barbara Abramson @ 3:18 pm |
Filed under: Alternative Medicine
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
Article by: OSSCI @ 3:17 pm |
Filed under: Alternative Medicine
Article by: OSSCI @ 3:17 pm |
Filed under: 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
Article by: John Burdett @ 3:15 pm |
Filed under: Alternative Medicine
Article by: John Burdett @ 3:15 pm |
Filed under: Alternative Medicine
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
Article by: Michael De Robertis @ 3:00 pm |
Filed under: Alternative Medicine
Article by: Michael De Robertis @ 3:00 pm |
Filed under: Alternative Medicine
“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.
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