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Concerns About Cookware Chemistry

21 Jan 2022

Like most chemists, I like to cook.聽聽After all, what is cooking but the appropriate mixing of chemicals?聽聽In the lab we use flasks and beakers, but how do we equip our kitchen?聽聽Tiffany's in New...

Benzene Jitters

19 Jan 2022

At one time it was used as an aftershave because of its sweet smell.聽聽It was even used to decaffeinate coffee.聽聽Oh my, how times change!聽聽Today we worry about a few parts per billion of benzene in...

Non-smoker鈥檚 lung cancer and the hidden link

31 Dec 2021

The link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer is widely acknowledged. But not everyone who smokes gets lung cancer and not everyone who gets lung cancer is a smoker. How does one contract the...

What is really meant by 鈥渆vidence-based medicine鈥?

31 Dec 2021

That鈥檚 an interesting question. What else could medicine be based on if not on evidence? Well, it could be based on conjecture, hearsay, wishful thinking, anecdote or just plain flim-flam. Indeed,...

Do the holidays cause heart attacks?

23 Dec 2021

This article was first published in The Skeptical Inquirer

Is there any point in drinking oxygenated water?

23 Dec 2021

Oxygen is critical for life and that also makes is susceptible to chicanery. If oxygen is so essential that the brain is permanently injured after just four minutes of deprivation, then surely more...

Cancer鈥檚 Sweet Tooth

17 Dec 2021

To the surprise of many, however, cancer cells are defective at producing the very fuel they need to grow and spread, but manage to overcome the innate 鈥渄isability鈥 and out-compete normal healthy...

Is it true that pine nuts can cause a lasting taste disturbance?

17 Dec 2021

In 2001, a Belgian physician experienced two episodes of bitter, metallic taste that lasted for several days and noted that both had occurred after he had eaten pine nuts. He mentioned this to a...

Pineapple for Eye Floaters: Sweet Deal or Pipe Dream?

11 Dec 2021

Shadow puppetry can be beautiful to look at, but when it鈥檚 happening inside our eyeballs, it鈥檚 an annoyance. One of the banes of getting older is the appearance of apparitions in our vision. In...

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