The Nature of Science

I claim that the top three criteria for good science reporting are: Accuracy, Accuracy, and Accuracy. Everything else falls into fourth plac...

There seems to be general agreement that many of the papers in evolutionary psychology are less than stellar examples of the best that scie...

"There's a sucker born every minute." David Hannum (frequently attributed to P.T. Barnum) For normal healthy people there'...

This article, Shop locally, eat globally? , appeared in today's edition of our university bulletin. I thought it was worth posting a lin...

The previous post mentioned a recently published article on "liberation therapy" that referred to it as something akin to faith he...

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is the main funding agency for health research in Canada. Most of the research in my depar...

Ed Yong of Not Exactly Rocket Science has just published a scathing criticism of the entire field of psychology [ Replication studies: Bad ...

  A lot of people are going to Washington next Saturday to stand 1 near the reflecting pool for eight hours listening to short speeches and...

  The Centre for Inquiry (Toronto) is trying to get back on track after CFI fired two National Executive Directors and the director of CFI O...

  The short answer is, "I don't know." The long answer is, "I don't think anyone else does." Here's what I k...

  In my opinion, there are two immediate things we need to do to fix CFI. The first is more openness. To that end I think the December 11th ...

The Burzynski Clinic is located in Houston, Texas, United States. It charges a lot of money to treat cancer patients and the treatment is p...

  The 25th Whole Life Expo takes place next weekend in Toronto (Ontario, Canada) at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre [ Whole Life Expo 20...

  Last summer, the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons published a draft proposal on Non-Allopathic (Non-Conventional) Therapies in M...

  Here are the opening paragraphs of an article published in the most recent issue of New Scientist [ Domestic violence gets evolutionary e...

James A. Shapiro is an interesting character. He claims that he is opposed to both neo-Dawinism and Creationism (upper case "C") a...

Canadian Blood Services is a non-profit organization charged with the responsibility of collecting and managing the blood supply for Canadi...

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario has produced a draft policy on Non-Allopathic (Non-Conventional) Therapies in Medical Pra...

There is no party platform that perfectly reflects my views on all issues. However, there is one thing I look for when deciding to support a...

PZ Myers on Salon reviews a book that I'm never going to read [ David Brooks' dream world for the trust-fund set ]. Unfortunately h...