Chemicals & Chemistry

How do you know when a "study" isn't really a study? When the people who performed it wrote up a brochure hyping its results before actually bothering to publish a scientific paper.

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Here are two facts about plastic recycling. Chances are that you know one of them and that you don't know the other. I sure didn't before today. WHAT YOU PROBABLY KNOW

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In what is almost certainly a Sisyphean task I'm going to try to apply logic to homeopathy. And it's going to be a bit obnoxious. So, all you believers who already hate me better get out your voodoo dolls and pins ready.

Food fraud is a substantial problem.

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I lack the art gene. While other people can spend hours in a single room at the Met or MOMA, after five minutes I'm thinking about ways to light myself on fire. I just don't get art.