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Erythropoietin: Ticket to the Olympics or Recipe for Disaster?

19 Aug 2023

What if I told you that a simple one letter change in your DNA could have landed you seven Olympic gold medals? You鈥檙e right, it鈥檚 probably a little more complicated than this. But winners of this...

No Need to Avoid Dairy When You鈥檙e Sick

18 Aug 2023

聽This article was first published in聽The Skeptical Inquirer.

Does peeing after sex prevent UTIs?

11 Aug 2023

This article was first published in The Skeptical Inquirer.

The Microbiome and Its Myth-Making Machine

11 Aug 2023

As promising new discoveries are made in the health sciences, the telephone game begins. Scientists put their best foot forward when presenting their results. The public relations department at...

Sour Grapes

10 Aug 2023

Fruits and vegetables are deemed to be 鈥渉ealthy". A vast number of studies have indeed demonstrated lower rates of diabetes, heart disease and cancer in populations consuming more fruits and...

Nattokinase鈥檚 Clot-Busting Promises Sway Scientists Who Should Know Better

4 Aug 2023

It has been called a 鈥減owerful all-natural supplement,鈥 one that shows 鈥渆xceptionally potent鈥 clot-busting action. This same enthusiastic source even refers to it as a 鈥渕iracle food.鈥 No, this was...

Where there is Smoke, there are Air Quality Indices

21 Jul 2023

I woke up from a nap to see a doomsday-esque picture outside the car window. My friends and I were driving back to Montreal during the poorest air quality day of the summer, and the city looked...

A Tale of Two Twins Meets a Tale of Two Cities

20 Jul 2023

Let鈥檚 start with the twins. Aimee and Nancy are identical twins who agreed to take part in an experiment organized by Panorama, an excellent British television documentary that often deals with...

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