Academic freedom is sacrosanct in universities. Researchers must be free to pursue their ideas, be they conventional or peculiar. But academic freedom also includes the freedom of others to question...
Read More >>The post-Second World War period was boom time in Canada for the chemical manufacturing sector, with companies like Canadian Industries Ltd., or C-I-L, offering the latest in goods to an...
Read More >>Do we laugh or cry? According to its promoters, magnetized water cures all ailments. Despite the fact that water cannot be magnetized, website upon website sells various devices that claim...
Read More >>Members of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC) are demanding changes to how the government deals with “public science,” including reinstating government scientists’ right to speak...
Read More >>Hannah Gay’s lecture on “The Chemists’ War” reported in January/February’s Canadian Chemical News brought so many thoughts to mind: my stepfather, gassed with chlorine at Ypres; myself, during the Second...
Read More >>While I am sure he gave many memorable speeches, Bill Clinton’s most famous statement as president may actually be the following: “It depends upon what the meaning of the word...
Read More >>World-renowned mathematician and physicist Neil Turok, director of the Perimeter Institute for TheoreticalPhysics in Waterloo, Ont., discusses Canada’ s place in the emerging quantum age and the need for scientists...
Read More >>With social media being the dominant mode of communication in the 21st century, celebrities, Twitter sound bites and sweeping simplistic slogans have usurped the general public’s confidence in scientists. “Natural...
Read More >>Late in 2013, many Canadian news outlets blared a headline similar to the one reported on the CBC’s website, “Eli Lilly Files $500M NAFTA Suit Against Canada Over Drug Patents.”...
Read More >>The Second Battle of Ypres by Richard Jack was commissioned by the Canadian War Memorials Fund to commemorate the first major action of Canadian troops at the Western Front during...
Read More >>Let me tell you about my day. This morning, as soon as I turned on the car radio, I was treated to an ad for the “Legendary Pure Silver Angel...
Read More >>I noted with astonishment the column “Oil sands phase-out may be Canada’s greatest contribution to the world” in the Sept-Oct, 2014 issue of the Canadian Chemical News (ACCN). Frankly, I am equally surprised by the call for a “phase-out” of the Canadian oil sands. Who are the scientists you claim to have concluded that “fossil fuels must remain in, or return to, the ground if we are to address global warming…?”
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