Toronto Aetherius Society: Jesus, Venusians, and some bad astronomy (Part 1)
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View ArticleLicensing Psychics and CAM Practitioners
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View ArticleWhere’s My Lab-grown Meat?
Where’s My Jetpack is an occasional segment on Life, the Universe & Everything Else, a podcast produced by the Winnipeg Skeptics and the Humanists, Atheists, and Agnostics of Manitoba. This segment...
View ArticleIrish Company Solves World Hunger, Climate Change, Small Chickens
Image Credit:Andrew Balfour and the good folks over at Boing Boing A news article from the Irish Independent has been making the rounds these last few days. With the cheery title of “Wave goodbye to...
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View ArticleSéralini Paper Retracted – GMOs do not cause cancer in Rats
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View ArticleHomeopaths Respond to CBC Marketplace
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