Originally published in the Kelowna Courier, June 2011 by Blythe Nilson During the incredible media coverage of the royal wedding in May, you may have seen the jelly bean bearing a splotch that enthusiasts claimed was the spitting image of Kate Middleton. The reason we see human figures in so many inanimate objects is that […]
Originally published in the Kelowna Courier, May 2011 by Blythe Nilson The popular CBC program Marketplace investigated the claims of homeopaths in a January 2011 episode entitled “Cure or Con?” in which they demonstrated very convincingly that homeopathic “drugs” are nothing but sugar and water. Not surprisingly the episode was controversial and the multi-billion dollar […]
Originally published in the Kelowna Courier, April 2011 by Blythe Nilson The history of the anti-vaccination movement is a long and interesting one filled with scandals, lies and cover-ups. Sadly the result has been an unfounded fear of immunization that places unvaccinated children at risk of contracting some very nasty diseases. It all started in […]