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I have a dear friend who believes in alternology. No matter how devastating the evidence to the contrary, she remains convinced and prefers to believe the baseless claims of the sharks swimming around her, eager to free her from her money. I should have expected nothing else, since it is exactly what the saying teaches [...]

Besides paying a fine, the company will also have to publish a correction in major Canadian newspapers and on its website, and must reimburse duped customers.
The wheels of the Competition Bureau may seem to turn very very slowly indeed, but let’s remember that -in spite of what many people seem to think- even civil servants [...]

Saturday, 7 May 2011, the city of Manila in the Philippines has attempted to make it into the Guinness Book of World Records by circumcising as many boys as possible.

When Kim Tinkham wrote to Oprah that she was going to heal herself after she was diagnosed with breast cancer, Oprah invited her to the show. She died yesterday, of a cancer she once thought was no longer there.
Two days before her fiftieth birthday, in February 2007, Kim Tinkham was diagnosed with stage three breast [...]

This afternoon, I was going out for a short walk. I couldn’t help but notice that Yonge Street had changed. There were no cars on the street at all, and hundreds, most probably thousands of people were walking north towards College Street and Bloor Street.
Many windows were smashed, a garbage can was trashed, and while [...]

“First do no harm” is a laudable principle when it is applied by people with a functioning brain. It is a highly dangerous fallacy when it is not.
When I have an acute appendicitis, I want my doctor to harm me. He/she is to take out her/his scalpel, cut me open and rip the darn [...]

Catholic bishops brushed aside complaints related to paedophilia and sexual abuse against 87 priests, according to a charity specialized in human rights abuse in the Church.

The paedophilia scandal involving Catholic bishop Vangheluwe is widening, there may be a second victim in spite of the bishop’s assurances. Cardinal Danneels and archbishop Léonard are under fire as well.

A bishop admits that he has sexually abused a boy in his family for years. The Catholic Church had received a few beatings, but this beats everything. The era of secrecy about abuse of power is over.

Child psychiatrist Peter Adriaenssens does not know if bishop Vangheluwe made more victims, but he considers this a real possibility.