In what is certifiably a rare occurrence, I’ve found myself reasonably impressed by the skepticism found in a special news article.  Specifically, by the piece 9/11 Conspiracy Files, which aired on CBC Newsworld this week.
The hour-long program focuses on perhaps the largest foundation of the 9/11 “Truthers’” conspiracy theory, the collapse of WTC7.  In it, [...]

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Scientific American has published this handy map of the creationism battle in the United States. Specifically, the map explains what’s currently going on — and where.
This is a must see for anybody who is concerned about, but not too familiar with, the current creationism battlegrounds.

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The BBC has published this follow-up on the legality of Google Street View in the UK, which I had previously written about here. Thankfully, the Information Commissioner has ruled on the side of sanity by upholding Britain’s privacy laws as they are written, as opposed to how they are sometimes interpreted by certain police [...]

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Privacy advocacy group ‘Privacy International’ in the UK is all up in arms about Google Street View’s recent endeavor to start mapping out the streets of England. The BBC writes about it here.
Privacy debates are always interesting to me, because despite the legitimate points that can be raised on either side of the issue, [...]

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In the past, we’ve blogged about issues such as ISP bandwidth throttling, and net neutrality. According to the CBC, the Canadian government has formed an organization exclusively to deal with issues between telecommunications companies, and consumers/small businesses. Unfortunately, word of the organization still hasn’t gotten around.
The Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services was [...]

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Admittedly, there’s a fine line between skepticism and cynicism — one that’s easy to cross if you don’t watch where you step. Skeptics are accused of making the world a dull place by taking all of the magic and wonder out of everything. As the poet John Keats once said (back when Philosophy [...]

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With global warming all the rage in government, the media, and the scientific community; and the recent introduction of the new Liberal carbon tax plan, a lot of talk has focused on the issue of who should be footing the bill for our increasing energy use. Whereas proponents of the bill think that Canadians [...]

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If there’s one thing I hate, it’s when people take science and corrupt it for their own political ends. In recent years, global warming has been - pardon the pun - a rather hot topic; hardly a day goes by when you don’t hear about it in one form or another. The environmentalists have championed [...]

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A couple weeks ago, I wrote about the Louisiana Science Education Act, a bill blatantly constructed to set the precedent for an anti-scientific, religious curriculum to be taught in public schools.  The bill, furthermore, is allegedly tied to The Discovery Institute, an anti-evolution organization famous for losing the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District case, [...]

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Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) is sold as an alternative to conventional (i.e. science/evidence based) medicine. The rallying cry of CAM supporters is usually that of choice. They feel that the supporters of conventional medicine have backed them into a corner, and conspire alongside “Big Pharma” to ensure that their choices for treatment [...]

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