A few weeks ago, my post on the anti-vaccination bias in the alternative medical community raised the ire of some readers when I suggested that chiropractors have been culpable in the spread of dangourous anti-vax rhetoric. Some were incredulous at the suggestion that chiropractic as a practice originally included...

It's National Immunization Awareness Week in Canada and across the world, and UNICEF is reporting the failure of Canada to achieve the 95 per cent immunization rate required to protect the community from resurgences of deadly and debilitating infectious disease.

At just 84 per cent, we...

On April 1 2013, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) doctors and acupuncturists in Ontario will need a license to practice their unique brand of healing.  This is the first of three vitalistic and unscientific healing practices to start accepting members in Ontario; the naturopaths will be next, followed...

I believe in personal autonomy, a cornerstone of the consent process in the health care system. Each person has the inherent right to decide what to put in their body, what treatment to have, or to refuse any treatment they are offered by their chosen healer.

That right is not...

In his new play The De Chardin Project, playwright Adam Seybold has the Jesuit priest and paleontologist Father Teilard De Chardin describe his witnessing of a terrible natural event whereby he arose from his cabin aboard a steamer on route to China to find a fire...

There is a slowly rising tide of uncertainty in Canada over the necessity and safety of vaccines for childhood infectious disease. While the safety and efficacy of vaccines is very well-established, doubt continues to be sown among parents just wanting the...

Dr. Oz, "America's Doctor," burns my biscuits.

The charismatic thoracic surgeon, who is a professor of medicine at the esteemed Columbia University, author or co-author of over 300 papers, has spent his considerable professional capital promoting absolute balderdash to his millions of viewers every week.

Even worse, like...