Food & Nutrition

Nutritional studies are notoriously fraught with problems — rigorous randomized controlled trials are almost impossible to carry out in a way that will accurately answer dietary questions, people misremember or lie about what they eat in dietary s

Gene editing, using a CRISPR approach to alter single-nucleotide pairs and genetic modification, where entire genetic alterations are incorporated into a plant’s DNA through the use of bacterial “messengers,” have allowed farmers and scientists to

By Benjamin Plackett, Contributor to Inside Science

Our friend, the telomere

I wrote an article several months ago about a controversial study suggesting that red meat wasn’t all that bad. You can find it here.

Bone broth is promoted as a “super-soup”, rich in collagen and minerals. But in reality, this eye-watering expensive broth is a poor source of nutrition and can’t boost your skin or help your joints as claimed.

Some scares never go away no matter whether there is a remotely plausible basis for the scare (maybe asbestos in talc) or pure insanity (vaccines causing autism).

Of course, anyone that has used these measures will tell you that at some point, the weight doesn’t continue to be lost, we plateau, and our bodies adjust to their new circumstances.

How's this for irony? The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is headed by a medical doctor, yet their latest fundraising letter is full of junk science, bogus health claims, and medical misinformation.

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