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Oprah for President?

12 Jan 2018

The U.S. is abuzz with chatter about Oprah for President. She makes a thoughtful, rousing, captivating speech at the Golden Globe Awards and people are ready to usher her into the Oval Office. But...

Webbed Foot Award 2017

26 Dec 2017

Every year as the year comes to an end we bestow our “Webbed Foot Award” on a worthy candidate. This year we are looking to do this by popular vote. Please send three candidates in order of merit...

Ideas to Reanimate the Dead Are Dead Wrong

20 Jun 2017

Reviving the dead using stem cells and electrical impulses sounds more like a plot for a Hollywood sci-fi movie than a process grounded in reality. And yet, that is exactly what a Philadelphia bio...

The Business of Heritage: what’s the deal with genetic sequencing?

14 Jun 2017

If you’ve ever spent any time in Ireland, you’ll know that heritage is highly marketable; from the-over-the-top Carroll’s gift shops, to the bright green tour buses transiting loads of tourists...

Therapeutic touch

10 May 2017

Dolores Krieger, a nurse, is the mother of Therapeutic Touch. She claims that humans are surrounded by energy fields which become disturbed when they are ill and can be massaged back into place by...

Instant Noodles

20 Mar 2017

At the turn of the millennium a Japanese poll asked about the best Japanese invention of the previous century. Instant noodles was the answer. Japan as well as China have a long history of eating...

Cancer Quackery Costs Lives

20 Mar 2017

“We've had more people reverse cancer than any institute in the history of health care, so when McGill fails, or Toronto hospitals fail, they come to us. It can be stage 4 cancer and we reverse it....

Is it true that onions can absorb bacteria?

20 Mar 2017

The most fascinating thing about the email that circulates about the curative properties and dangers of onions is that some people give it credence. Why would anyone believe some unsubstantiated...

Fear of Vaccines

20 Mar 2017

It is almost inevitable that new technologies are opposed by some people. Nuclear energy, microwave ovens, pasteurization, genetically modified foods and vaccinations are classic examples. The...

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