/oss/taxonomy/term/588/all en /oss/article/critical-thinking-health-and-nutrition/gene-therapied-pork-or-fear-rna-vaccines-livestock <p>“How long have you been consuming gene therapied pork?” That’s the question Joe Mercola, snake oil salesman supreme and <a href="/oss/article/covid-19-health-pseudoscience/upside-down-doctor">one of the world’s richest doctors</a>, recently asked on his website. (His article has now been moved to <a href="https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/eating-pork-treated-with-gene-therapy">his paid Substack blog</a>).</p> Fri, 21 Apr 2023 17:55:44 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 9487 at /oss /oss/article/medical-critical-thinking-health-and-nutrition/yummy-hype-nutrigenomics <p>Should you let your genes decide what you eat? The field of nutrigenomics certainly leans in that direction. Frustratingly, there are two sides to nutrigenomics. On the one hand, it is a research endeavour trying to shed light on the interactions between the food we eat and the molecules in our body. On the other hand, it is a commercial endeavour piggybacking on the public’s fascination with DNA and the personalization of care.</p> <p>Is it worth the hype?</p> Sat, 27 Aug 2022 22:20:50 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 9215 at /oss /oss/article/covid-19-health-and-nutrition/antivirals-are-coming <p>I continue to be amazed by science. The ability to predict to the second when an eclipse will occur at a specific location in the world, the know-how to build a jetliner that requires the cohesive working of over four million parts and the production of computers with all their marvellous functions are astounding examples of human ingenuity. To say nothing about reaching into your pocket for the smartphone that in a fraction of a second will provide an answer to almost any question you may have. Mind-boggling.</p> Fri, 12 Nov 2021 21:02:21 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 8921 at /oss /oss/article/covid-19-health/evidence-coronavirus-can-mess-our-dna-far-convincing <p>Science is hard. This is not meant to dissuade anyone from going into the sciences. It’s just a statement of fact with which all scientists would probably agree, and it’s a sort of mantra we can repeat to ourselves to recalibrate our expectations once in a while.</p> Fri, 14 May 2021 19:25:48 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 8733 at /oss /oss/article/general-science-health-and-nutrition/you-know-dna-meet-even-more-interesting-molecule <p>I remember being introduced to RNA as a disposable DNA copy with a very short life, a sort of mayfly of the molecular world.</p> <p>RNA was how you got from DNA to protein. It was like a set of instructions printed on the most brittle of papers. It might as well have been the medium through which the <em>Mission: Impossible</em> team got their assignment before it self-destructed. In one word, it was uninteresting.</p> <p>We’re all familiar with DNA. It encodes the machinery that creates living beings. But RNA, its oft-dismissed offspring, is much more fascinating.</p> Fri, 22 Dec 2017 00:44:24 +0000 Jonathan Jarry, MSc 6853 at /oss