I keep teasing my analytical chemist colleagues that they are responsible for the anxiety that so many people have about chemicals invading their lives. Hardly a day goes by without some report of...
Imagine a drug so powerful, your government didn鈥檛 want you to have it. Now, add the claim that this drug is all natural (it鈥檚 not) and that people report it cured them of any ailment you can think...
鈥淣ot everything that can be counted, counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.鈥� That quote is commonly attributed to Einstein although there is no evidence he ever said it. Even if he...
Physicians today are unlikely to encounter 鈥淕ilder鈥檚 palsy.鈥� But prior to the 19th century this ailment had to be considered when a patient presented with tremors, irritability, increased...
鈥淵ou don鈥檛 even know what a binder is when you鈥檙e doing a parasite cleanse. I came from Western medicine and I didn鈥檛 know what a binder was! We didn鈥檛 use those!鈥� So says Kim Rogers, who proclaims...
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...
The tentacles of COVID-19 reach into every area of life. I鈥檝e been getting a flurry of calls about vacuum cleaners, air filters, and cordless hair clippers. Sales of these items have increased...
Just about every textbook of toxicology pays homage to Paracelsus, the sixteenth century alchemist. Why? Because he introduced the idea that 鈥渙nly the dose makes the poison.鈥� It makes no sense to...
A recently published paper in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology managed to create a great deal of public angst about using some types of dental floss. 鈥淭his is the...
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