Chemicals & Chemistry

When I was editor of RealClearScience, we considered The Guardian to be a daily must-read.

For those of us who read the Odyssey in middle school, the “wine-dark seas” will perhaps ring a bell. For those who study color, it is another example of an absence of words for the color blue.

Journalism is thoroughly inept and corrupt. The quality of journalism has gotten so bad that I have whittled down my trusted sources to merely a handful. Even then, when it comes to science, these sources often get it wrong.

California's Proposition 65, which began its miserable life as The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, now has little to do with safe water or safe anything else.

Reprinted by permission of McGill University Office for Science and Society. ### 

Reprinted by permission of McGill University Office for Science and Society. ###  Some of these compounds, like allyl methyl sulfide from garlic, will turn up in your breath, pee, and sweat.

It's more of the same from the Environmental Working Group (EWG) - cleverly designed but scientifically nonsensical scares. "Organic: The Original Clean Food" is a magnifice

A couple of years ago, Panera Bread went crazy. Somebody high up in the corporation decided that selling (what is, in my opinion1) really great tasting food was no longer a sufficient strategy.

If you say "palladium" to most people they will think music. But a chemist will think "5% palladium on carbon hydrogenation catalyst." As if we need more evidence that chemists are mutants.

Friday, April 26th: "FDA OKs New Topical Treatment Duobrii for Plaque Psoriasis."