BadScienceWatch

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BadScienceWatch

BadScienceWatch

@BadScienceWatch

(Inactive)Providing analysis of dubious scientific claims to Canadians, our government, and the media, and advocating for strong consumer protection regulation.

Canada Katılım Şubat 2012
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"At Wednesday’s annual general meeting of the B.C. College of Chiropractors, the body that regulates and licences the profession, a resolution opposing provincial vaccine mandates won the support of 78 per cent of delegates." globalnews.ca/news/8424774/c…
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"Some pharmacists working in Canada's top drugstores are recommending homeopathic products to consumers, even though, experts say, these products are essentially sugar water or sugar pills with no scientific evidence they can do what they claim" cbc.ca/news/canada/ma…
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"A B.C. physician accused of spreading misinformation about COVID-19 is now under investigation for allegedly writing phoney mask and vaccine exemptions offered through a Kelowna-based website." cbc.ca/news/canada/br…
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"The people conducting the ivermectin train have sabotaged the brakes. The train will keep on chugging along, even as it falls apart." mcgill.ca/oss/article/co…
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"Chiropractors have become major purveyors of misinformation about COVID treatments and have given hundreds of thousands of dollars to anti-vaccine events." kcur.org/health/2021-10…
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"The Associated Press found a vocal and influential group of chiropractors has been capitalizing on the pandemic by sowing fear and mistrust of vaccines." apnews.com/article/anti-v…
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"It is high time Africa got a safe and effective vaccine against malaria, but ethical standards and transparency cannot be sacrificed. A vaccine’s protection does not simply come from its building blocks. It also comes from trust." mcgill.ca/oss/article/he…
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"Duke University and a private company have been selling access to unproven cord blood treatments for autism. Now, they’re planning something much bigger." vice.com/en/article/qj8…
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"Eric Clapton went from setting the standard for rock guitar to making ‘full-tilt’ racist rants to becoming an outspoken vaccine skeptic. Did he change? Or was he always like this?" rollingstone.com/music/music-fe…
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"As a rural Alberta man fights for his life in an Edmonton ICU, his wife, who was once against COVID-19 vaccines, is urging others to get the shot and guard against misinformation online." edmontonjournal.com/news/local-new…
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"Ontario's medical regulator has barred a family doctor from providing exemptions for COVID-19 vaccines and face masks, alleging that he has deliberately spread misinformation about the ongoing pandemic." cbc.ca/news/canada/to…
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"The data also reveals that 72,000 people paid at least $6.7 million for Covid-19 consultations promoted by America’s Frontline Doctors and vaccine conspiracist Simone Gold." theintercept.com/2021/09/28/cov…
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'Ivermectin has been called a Covid "miracle" drug, championed by vaccine opponents, and recommended by health authorities in some countries. But the BBC can reveal there are serious errors in a number of key studies that the drug's promoters rely on.' bbc.com/news/health-58…
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"A Fraser Valley naturopath has filed a legal action against his professional regulator, alleging it doesn't have the power to stop him from producing fecal transplants in his B.C. lab to administer to autistic children in Mexico." cbc.ca/news/canada/br…
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"When it comes to children and COVID-19, certain doctors seem unwilling to acknowledge negative information about the virus and positive information about the vaccine. Can they pass the pro-vaccine test?" sciencebasedmedicine.org/what-does-it-m…
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