He has waited a long time to make his move. From the day he was first elected with the support of a group that was founded to kill medicare.He had to restrain himself for so many years. But it was always going to be the biggest, bloodiest, and most prized
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Dead Wild Roses: Let’s Chalk Up Another Child’s Death to Alternative Medicine
Ah yes, purveyors of Woo this is your fault. This isn’t Big Pharma, this isn’t biased studies, or any of the mendacity that you preach – the death of this child is squarely and completely on you. The CBC reports: “Criminal charges are pending against a Calgary mother who
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Edmonton Alternative Medicine – Quackery Descends in my Hometown
Why oh why do people still want to normalize the use of magic and illusion into the practice of medicine? We’ve spent decades codifying and rooting out the bullshit practices and have steeled ourselves against ‘good common sense’ notions and looked where the evidence points us. There is no
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Measuring ghosts
MEASURING GHOSTS A recent article in Science Translational Medicine asks the question “Can We Measure Autism ?” To my mind this begs the question, “is there really something called “autism” that we should be trying to measure ?”…
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MEASURING GHOSTS A recent article in Science Translational Medicine asks the question “Can We Measure Autism ?” To my mind this begs the question, “is there really something called “autism” that we should be trying to measure ?”. The authors Isaac S. Kohane and Alai Eran inadvertently make the case
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MEASURING GHOSTS A recent article in Science Translational Medicine asks the question “Can We Measure Autism ?” To my mind this begs the question, “is there really something called “autism” that we should be trying to measure ?”. The authors Isaac S. Kohane and Alai Eran inadvertently make the case
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Side Effects of Pregnancy – Repost from Liz Library
This is a signal boost/handy reference that enumerates the risks women face when pregnant. It is a useful tool in dispelling the motherhood myths that surround what pregnancy is like for women and awesome it is for them. The Liz Library is a great website, but slow loading, thus its
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NORMAN BETHUNE AND BLOOD TRANSFUSION: A GREAT CANADIAN LIE If you visit pretty well any Canadian government site, or one receiving its funding from the government, you will come across the claim that the Canadian Communist surgeon Norman Bethune founded the first mobile blood transfusion unit in the world
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Why do so few Canadians get a flu shot?
That’s the headline for a recent Toronto Star story. It suggests that as few as one third of Canadians get a flu vaccine, and in some place the number may be as low as 20 percent. This despite Ontario having the world’s first universal free flu shot program, introduced in
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The InSite Clinic and the Murderous Cons
People are always asking me whether I REALLY believe that the Cons should be arrested eh?And I'm always having to say yes I really do.Not just because of the way they have hijacked our democracy, and all their sordid scandals.But because they are actually prepared to hurt, or even kill
Continue readingMontreal Simon: My Tribute Video to Some Real Canadian Heroes
It's not easy looking for heroes in Harperland.Everywhere I look all I see is corruption and scandal.Grubby politicians and small greedy people.But of course there are real heroes out there.And these were four of the best Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Birds of Spring and the Deadly Flu Strain
The birds have been flocking back to the island as they do every spring. Flying in from south of the lake, on their way north.But this year I'm not as glad to see them, as I usually am.Because this year they can't help reminding me of what's going on in China. Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper Begins his Assault on Medicare
He has always wanted to strangle it. He has had to restrain himself for so long. From the moment he entered politics, with the support of an organization that was founded to destroy medicare.But now at last his foul assault on our precious healthcare system has begun.And it's both stealthy and monstrous. Read
Continue readingChadwick's Blog & Commentary: Someone is wrong on the internet
I discovered an entertaining site recently called Skeptic North. It’s a Canadian equivalent to several similar sites and blogs I read that are mostly American-based. It challenges popular assumptions, ideas, trends and pseudoscience and other claptrap. In a Canadian way, … Continue reading →
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Savita Halappanavar’s Death – Victory for the Irish Catholic “Pro-Life” Murder Brigade
I needed some time to digest this story… Sorry folks but that is a lie. I needed some time to come back to a (relatively) coherent state before I could write reasonably about what went down with Savita Halappanavar. A post filled with nothing but white-hot rage and invective against the pustulant ass-pimples known as […]
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper’s Stealth Attack on Medicare
Oh boy. Trying to keep up with Stephen Harper these days is like trying to keep up with a pickpocket working a crowded railway station.Or a pimp working a Republican convention.One moment he's selling us out to the Chinese Communist Capitalist Part…
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Mens sana in corpore sano: a sound mind in a healthy body
Mens sana in corpore sano: a sound mind in a healthy body – a very good motto that is. The saying comes from the Roman Juvenal, and it applies as much today as it did two thousand years ago, of course. I’ve alternated, myself, between being a certified bon vivant,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The War on Women in the United States
If it happens down south, you know who is next in line. Support this video, reblog it, post it everywhere. The rights of women are threatened, take action and don’t let the bad guys (aka republicans) win. Filed under: Education, Feminism, Medicine, Politics Tagged: Abortion, Feminism, Planned Parenthood, Reproductive Freedom,
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Cons and the Attack of the Angry Doctors
OMG. I don't blame the Cons for thinking that Canada's doctors are after them. But that'll teach them to treat sick refugees as less than human. “There is a new way of thinking in medicine, which is that doctors, because of their stature, privilege and expertise, have a duty to
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Norman Bethune and the Ghastly Cons
I wasn't planning to write about this storm in the twittersphere. Because what can you say eh? Except that it's obviously summer. Tony Clement is a shameless idiot. Ezra Levant is a freak of nature. And Norman Bethune is bigger than all of them. But now that the grotesque Con Rob
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