Mike Adams has released his Amazing Predictions for 2011-2012 (and so on) Very generic predictions like “More people growing their own food” and “Increased awareness of natural remedies and health freedom” so that he can point back at them a year later and claim them as hits if only one more person can be shown [...]
Read more →“A tu quoque argument attempts to discredit the opponent’s position by asserting his failure to act consistently in accordance with that position; it attempts to show that a criticism or objection applies equally to the person making it. It is considered an ad hominem argument, since it focuses on the party itself, rather than its [...]
Read more →I mentioned this last night at the Skeptics In The Pub session, but couldn’t recall the specifics of the exchange. If you’re new, I’m @xinit0 on twitter. I’ve edited the twitter postings below slightly to make them read in English where appropriate, and linked to the original posts on Twitter. Me: Oh dear. Leslie Winkle [...]
Read more →I haven’t really said much on the Whole Foods CEO’s so-called health care reform suggestions. He basically claims on his blog that the editorial staff at the New York Times took it upon themselves to make him look bad. He posted the full, uncut, unedited, uncensored, version to his blog, and it… looks identical. The [...]
Read more →This isn’t my story, the following descriptive piece is from F*** My Life: Today, I was baking cookies. When I took the tray out of the oven I closed the door, but it bounced back open and hit me in the back of the knees. That caused me to sit down on the hot oven [...]
Read more →How using Facebook could raise your risk of cancer. Facebookinoma? The Daily Mail writes up Facebook as the death of modern man, and points to Dr. Aric Sigman as the oracle of DOOM! Tomorrow, the Daily Mail will have a followup on how They are keeping homeopathic cancer cures from us. Social networking sites such [...]
Read more →What follows is an early draft of an essay I’ve been poking at. The aim in this isn’t to claim that there aren’t problems in the Canadian health care system, but to dispel some of the bogus charges leveled at the system both from within Canada and from without. I need to add a handful [...]
Read more →Well, looks like I’m going to need a root canal at worst, and a bit of a patch job at best. I sent the following to Starbucks customer service email line. I’ve been meaning to tell them how poor the selection of foods are compared to anywhere of their non-Maritimes locations, and what better time [...]
Read more →There are only two scars on my body that really have anything near a story to tell. There’s one I received as an adult and one that I received as a child; only the one from my youth could be used as a means of identifying my corpse should things come to that. This is [...]
Read more →I was having a discussion about the latest proposed changes to the food and drug act in Canada (Bill C-51), and I mentioned something disparaging about the people making the claims that Big Pharma was raping someone’s saintly, virginal grandmother for growing her own herbs in her garden. I think I might have suggested that [...]
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