On June 15, the Vancouver Canucks lost their chance at the Stanley Cup. Immediately following the upset, people took to the streets, and as we all know it didn’t end well. People began to...

Last year was a fantastic one for the science world, thanks largely to the efforts out of England. First, the journal The Lancet retracted Andrew Wakefield’s paper, which fraudulently linked autism and the MMR...

“Humans will start falling in love with robots, probably in about 30 or 40 years.” –David Levy (2007) On Nov. 22, 2009 guests were invited to a Tokyo wedding and, along with those who...

In 2008, the British Chiropractic Association (BCA) sued English science writer Simon Singh for an article he wrote in The Guardian called, “Beware the Spinal Trap.” He criticized the BCA for claiming that, by...

Memory (among other things) is impaired when you are sleep-deprived, and having a full night of sleep (around eight hours, depending on the person) maximizes the potential for accurate memory retrieval. It’s not yet...

In the final installment on facilitated communication (FC) we are going to look at three people who have embraced FC — one who has raised public awareness of FC, another who has linked his...

The use of facilitated communication (FC) on Rom Houben, a 46-year old Belgian car crash victim, contributed to his recent diagnostic change from being in a persistent vegetative state to locked-in syndrome. In FC,...