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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 [...]

Last Saturday, volunteer groups all over the world staged an overdose campaign. People deliberately took massive overdoses of commercially bought homoeopathic products to show that there is nothing in them. A Toronto group took part in the worldwide event.
The worldwide event, called the 10:23 Challenge is based on a classical demonstration of the absurdity of [...]

After the recent airing by the CBC of a Marketplace episode that exposed homoeopathy as a potentially dangerous non-treatment, CP24’s Wylde on Health aired an episode defending homoeopathy: Homeopathy, does it work?
“Homoeopathy, does it work? That’s the question we try to answer for you tonight through some of the best science and reasonable theories that [...]

After the broadcast by CBC Marketplace, the debate regarding the efficacy of homoeopathy goes on. In a comment, a reader posted a scientific paper that is purported to show that homoeopathy cures brain cancer. Let’s have a look.

Following the CBC Marketplace episode about homoeopathy, and the articles I wrote about it, I received a phone call and an e-mail to accuse the makers of Marketplace of manipulating the truth and to inform me that homoeopaths do not treat cancer.

Yesterday, the CBC aired a short programme about homoeopathy in its Marketplace series. Homoeopaths launched a smear campaign against the programme and its makers, before it was even aired.

A few hours ago, the CBC’s Marketplace had a show about homoeopathy. One cannot reasonably expect a 20 minute programme to completely explain anything and everything about homoeopathy. Nevertheless, the programme contains no blatant errors, no obvious bias and it is complete enough to give the lay person an idea about what homoeopathy is and [...]

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 [...]

One of the most-heard criticisms by people who are in favour of alternology and opposed to the big pharmaceutical companies, is that the big pharmaceutical companies –also known as Big Pharma– have enormous budgets for marketing and far smaller budgets for research. Is this true?