“Witchcraft” Charges in Toronto | Vol. 4 / No. 23.2
Because lying to people and taking their money is fraud.
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Autism and Augmented and Alternative Communication | Vol. 4 / No. 18.4
Because it’s really hard to tell who’s communicating sometimes.
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Are Women With Large Posteriors Really “Smarter and Healthier”? | Vol. 4 / No. 13.4
In a shocking turn of events, headlines reporting that a “study shows women with big butts are healthier, smarter” are misleading at best.
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Yelp for Drugs? No Thank You. | Vol. 4 / No. 12.3
Donald J. Trump’s pick for the head of the FDA is a longtime opponent of the FDA, but one of his deleted tweets has one of the most spectacularly awful ideas I’ve ever heard.
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Vote. | Vol. 4 / No. 2.2
This is a post just for my American readers today.
I’m not going to pretend I don’t have any political opinions. In another year, I might even say it doesn’t matter who you vote for, just that you do get out there and vote.
But this year, if you’re a skeptic, there’s a pretty stark choice…
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On Being a Patriotic Skeptic | Vol. 3 / No. 50.2
A recent discussion on r/skeptic about whether patriotism is something that we, as skeptics, should be skeptical of has had me thinking — and (as I think you’ve heard me say before once or twice) I think the dose makes the poison.
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You May Be Ingesting Chromium-6: Don’t Panic | Vol. 3 / No. 47.4
Chromium trioxide, a Cr(VI) compound | Image: BXXXD, CC BY-SA 2.0 “‘Erin Brockovich’ Carcinogen In Tap Water Of More Than 200 Million Americans” reads the press release from EWG, the Environmental Working Group. It’s a headline […]
Intelligence “Inherited From Mothers”? Well Some Of It, Sure | Vol. 3 / No. 45.3
Photo: Flickr user Allan Ajifo, CC BY 2.0 So, I’m a feminist. As such, I belong to a number of feminist Facebook groups and follow a number of feminist blogs. And 99% of the time […]
In A Surprise To Literally No-one, Scientists Find “Chemtrails” To Be Bunk | Vol. 3 / No. 42.1
CONtrails | Photo: fdecomite, CC BY 2.0 A survey published this week in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Review Letters found that, when asked to explain typically-given “evidence” of SLAPs (Secret Large-scale Atmospheric Programs, aka “chemtrails”), experts […]
“There Is No Place For Acupuncture In Medicine.” | Vol. 3 / No. 40.2
Not On Australia’s Dime… | Photo: Marnie Joyce, CC BY 2.0 As regular readers of This Week In Tomorrow will know, we’re not huge fans of “alternative” medicine here. That’s because, in the words of […]