Chemicals & Chemistry

Roughly two dozen elements are named after people or places. You know some of them... curium, einsteinium, livermorium, nobelium, etc. Most of these elements are "ghosts" – they don't really exist.

It's summer. Finally. Winter is over. COVID is on its way out. But be careful. According to Autoinsurance.org, the most dangerous driving day of the year is upon us.

For the better part of six years, anti-GMO groups circled the wagons around a single message: the weed killer Roundup (glyphosate) causes cancer, specifically Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL).

Despite the allegations of greedy trial lawyers and greedy, ideological activist groups, a massive body of peer-reviewed research has confirmed that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Bayer's Roundup weed killer, poses minimal risk to human

This is not a new issue. In fact, the ACSH has published numerous articles on this over the years, beginning in 2017.

March 24, 2021 

In the mood to read about an element this morning? Probably not.

 

There sure is a seemingly unlimited supply of things for Americans to argue about, but the "In the Garden" section of the New York Times would seem to be a safe harbor from the nonstop debate over everything that has gripped this country sinc

New York City Council Member Ben Kallos sure knows how to play the game. In his quest to get glyphosate (Roundup) banned from parks and other public spaces, he uses a tried and true method.