Chemicals & Chemistry

Contrary to populist dogma, with rare exceptions, chemicals do not accumulate in our bodies.

Organic chemicals can be divided into broad categories – let's call them "flavors" – based on what functional groups they possess.

One would think that the FDA's issuance of the CLARITY-BPA Core Study, a two-year exhaustive examination of the effects of the plastic component bispheno

It's not a secret that the average person is scientifically illiterate. The question is, "Just how scientifically illiterate?" The answer is appalling.

Alliance for Risk Assessment (ARA) Presents: Beyond Science and Decisions: from Problem Formulation to Comprehensive Risk Assessment

Here is what the average American knows about gold:

As I've written many times:

In his book Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer, C.S.

By Geoffrey Kabat

Two Arkansas chemistry professors are either: a) a couple of morons, or b) extremely unlucky. There is just not enough information in the news to tell which of the above is true. The coverage is all over the place. For example: