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MONTREAL - Montreal has become the private health care capital of Canada, offering a wide range of diagnostic, surgical and therapeutic services to those patients willing to pay out of pocket to bypass the public system, an investigation by Montreal's Gazette has found. A parallel health network for the well-heeled and well-connected has emerged in the city in the past five years amid swelling hospital waiting lists for MRI scans, orthopedic procedures, almost every type of day surgery, and a shortage of family doctors. continue the article (subscription required)

Let science debate begin Terence Corcoran Financial Post Thursday, January 27, 2005 For some time now this page has been publishing comment on The Hockey Stick, the central piece of scientific evidence for the United Nation's claim that the world is warmer now than at any time in the last 1,000 years. Today we begin a major two-part investigation that delves deeper into the foundations for what may well be the most important economic, scientific and business graphic in world history. [snip] It is a story filled with intrigue, conflict and amazing facts about how science is made, especially climate...

Long article from the current New Yorker on Francis Galton, Victorian scientist, cousin of Charles Darwin. His motto was "whenever you can, count". Since The New Yorker doesn't allow FR to post any of its material, it can be accessed via www.aldaily.com; scroll down under New Books, and click on the link. Or go directly to the article at The New Yorker

...snip... NARRATOR: Scientists now believe what happens inside the minds of temporal lobe epileptic patients may just be an extreme case of what goes on inside all our brains, for everyone. It now appears that temporal lobes are key in experiencing religious and spiritual belief......explosive research......inspiration for a completely new field of science - neurotheology. In a remote region of Northern Canada a scientist put this controversial new science of neurotheology......Dr Michael Persinger claims that by stimulating the temporal lobes he can artificially induce religious experience in almost anyone. ...snip... NARRATOR: Controversially Dr Persinger argues that most, if not all,...