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Didn't know what Orthomolecular Medicine means. Sorry, but that adds a cup of scepticism to the text and requires more reference tracking that I can afford. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthomolecular_medicine

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To add further skepticism, "Brian Peckford, former Premier of Newfoundland, disagrees. He is the last surviving member of the group that drew up Canada's Charter of Rights." is a massive red flag.

1. Chretien was much more instrumental to the authorship of the Charter, and is checks CBC as he's kind of old still alive.

2. That "qualification" is meaningless. It's trying to imply Canadian constitutionalism has original intent, which it doesn't (we use a living document philosophy). So a non-applicable appeal to authority.

Doesn't help that the one concrete example of "dissent" in the text itself is about covid vaccines, which afaik are pretty much a settled issue in terms of safety and efficacy.

Safety and efficacy for whom? Numerous European countries have already begun significantly dialing back the demographic groups to whom they are recommending booster shots, so I'd say it's looking pretty unsettled.

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