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I never thought anything would make me watch an episode of House Hunters but clearly I was mistaken. This I gotta see.

The Ashton that covered you earlier today is my wife.

Ok this is driving me crazy. What's an Ashton?

Hi Doctor Rick!

With the recent drop in the price of oil, what trends should we expect to see in a lot of Alberta communities that have the transient workforce like you've described?

Related, given the number of workers in Alberta who have immigrated to Alberta from other corners of Canada (or the world) is there any reason to expect a ripple effect in other Canadian communities?

I'm a bit behind on the Kevin Smith news... what's the tie between him and Meghan Phelps?

Generally if you want an argument to be taken seriously in a highly academic setting throwing around the word "fraud" willy-nilly and making harsh accusations about the personal motivations of the person who's research you're attacking on a blog isn't the best way to go.

Publish something in a peer-reviewed journal that attacks the work but not the author and it would be a lot easier to take seriously.

Also I feel if anything the word "hoax" would be more accurate, as fraud generally implies the attempt to deprive someone else or to unlawfully gain and that expense of another. At best there was a bit of professional success as the result of publishing the paper, but that's really fraud only in the loosest sense of an "unfair gain". It still fits within the meaning of the word technically, but it makes his article read way more like a personal attack than a scientific critique.