Jonathan Jarry
‘We will publish anything!’ — Here’s how predatory journal mills work
A predatory journal exists solely to make money. It’s like a parasite on the back of the scientific endeavour ...
World Health Organization and pseudoscience: Foremost global health authority promotes homeopathy and ‘rhythmical embrocations’
In trying to ensure everyone has access to healthcare, the WHO promotes homeopathy, traditional Chinese medicine, and rhythmical embrocations ...
Dietary bogeyman? Is oxalate the root of dozens of food-related diseases — as alternative medicine advocates claim?
You will hear oxalate demonized by Sally K. Norton, who has just published a book about her theory. It’s called Toxic ...
Vagal hype: What’s behind the ‘natural health’ community’s focus on healing effects of ‘resetting’ vagus nerve?
The vagus nerve is a darling of the all-natural healing crowd. Its complex arborescence makes it the ideal nerve on ...
Viewpoint: ‘Embracing pseudoscience’ — Who is Joe Rogan, and why are so many people tuning in for his disinformation?
“A lot of times, we’re drinking or we’re high, you know, and I say stupid shit.” Coming from a teenager, ...
Viewpoint: ‘Breakthrough’ malaria vaccine garners mixed reviews
The announcement by the WHO that a vaccine against malaria, more than thirty years in the making, could finally be ...
‘They squint, they stammer, they shuffle and shamble, they flounder like seals out of water’: Demonized for being different, left-handers are DNA puzzles
Being left-handed can be devilishly hard. In 1937, an educational psychologist whose work was later discredited wrote of many left-handers ...
Stop hair greying with a pill? Repigmentation is not about to happen with this overhyped supplement
Why put up with grey hair when we could pop a new pill to “replenish [our] body with the vitamins, ...
Viewpoint: Dr. Joseph Mercola’s war on mainstream medicine — ‘His take on the pandemic is a lucrative conspiratorial dream’
Dr. Joe Mercola, an osteopathic physician who has made an impressive fortune selling supplements through his online store, has a ...
Re-energized anti-vaccine activism is growing on the right and winning the social media battle to discredit coming coronavirus treatments
What does an antivaxxer and a far-right activist have in common? If the thought of someone who opposes vaccines brings ...
Anti-vaxxers don’t want safer vaccines, they want no vaccines
“I try to look and see where the evidence takes me.” Does this statement sound reasonable? If I told you ...
Expensive CAR-T therapy raises difficult question: ‘What is the price of a human life?’
A new type of therapy for certain blood cancers is ingenious but it raises important questions about its cost, both ...
Debunking marijuana myths: Monsanto has not created ‘GMO super weed’
Despite what some chronic users may claim, the cannabis plant is not mystical. Like any living species, its cells house ...
How do you know ‘pseudoscience’ when you see it?
Ontario Correactology Health Care Centres offer 'natural' ways to manage pain, but they're not scientifically proven ...
Exploring the alternate reality of Natural News’ Mike Adams’ online ’empire of misinformation’
If there is a Wonderland filled with health scares, monsters, and miraculous concoctions, Mike Adams is building it. And its ...
Video: Dissecting claim that Canadian professor is a ‘Monsanto sock puppet’
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation recently brought forth allegations that professor Peter Phillips of the University of Saskatchewan is a Monsanto ...
