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Global Affairs Canada providing $350K to send group of homeopaths to Honduras to treat Chagas disease. How about you use the money to pay for treatment that works instead of playing pretend?
Health Headlines Commentary for February 25, 2019 Source:Why is $350,000 in Canadian aid being used to send homeopaths to Honduras?
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Sunday House Call, #685, February 24, 2019: A few pages from “The Stupid Files”
Sunday House Call, #685, February 24, 2019: A few pages from “The Stupid Files” Topics today include: The Stupid Files How the Government of Canada Through its Global Affairs Canada department is spending 350,000 dollars to send homeopaths to Honduras to treat Chagas disease. A 5-year-old boy with measles reinfects a country Your calls (and…
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Wednesday House Call, April 22, 2018: Homeopathy: The one anti-science to rule them all
Wednesday House Call, April 22, 2018: Homeopathy: The one anti-science to rule them all Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to discuss the latest health stories of the week. Today: We discuss the latest homeopathic vaccine treatment claiming to cure autism. and why it will not work. Your calls about Muscles degradation in type I…
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The antiscience of homeopathy in all its splendour on display with latest autism cure claim
Health Headlines Commentary for April 23, 2018 Source: ‘Outrageous claims’: Canadian homeopaths say diluted vaccines can ‘recover’ kids from autism
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Sunday House Call, #627, September 3, 2017: Get the lead out…and the belladonna too!
Sunday House Call, #627, September 3, 2017: Get the lead out…and the belladonna too! Topics today include: Homeopathic healing bracelets poisons babies with lead and CRISPR-Cas 9 used to alter cardiac genetic defect for first time in embryos. Your calls about: Treatment and prevention of low back pain. treatment and exercising an arthritic…
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Sunday House Call, #594, November 27, 2016: Let’s treat likes its 1796!
Sunday House Call, #594, November 27, 2016: Let’s treat likes its 1796! Topics today include: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission lays down the law on homeopathic remedies (full release here). Your questions about a longstanding itchy scalp, dental implants, bagged vegetables, Alternatives to the blood pressure medication Coversyl, and parents who believes in alternative medicine…
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Sunday House Call, #539, July 12, 2015: The University of Quackademia
Sunday House Call, #539, July 12, 2015: The University of Quackademia Topics today include:The University of Toronto Scarborough enters the quackademia arena, an antivaxer argues for autrism link with vaccines and ignores evidence, a classic illustration of confirmation bias, backfire effect, cherry-picking of studies, and causation fallacy, the causes of coronary artery disease and the…
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Sunday House Call, #536, June 21, 2015: Quackery kills a child
Sunday House Call, #536, June 21, 2015: Quackery kills a child Topics today include:Homeopathy and herbs cannot save a child’s life from a simple ear infection gone very wrong, Periodic Health Evaluations, back pain, should you do colonoscopies after agee 75?, hammer toes pain, and bone pain in a hand.
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Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call April 1, 2015 : The Quackery Edition
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call April 1, 2015 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to discuss teh latest health stories of the week. Today: 1) Citing GermanWings story. When and what is a doctor obligated to tell authorities about? For example, revoking drivers licenses (e.g. elderly drivers)? Applying for firearms? A gunshot wound? What…