My Articles

December 5, 2019 – Measles Cases Up 1100% in Americas Since 2000, But Down Globally by 66%
December 4, 2019 – What Is Truth? Agreement with Others, Correspondence to Reality, or Mere Opinion?
December 3, 2019 – How to Make Money by Spreading Anti-GMO Propaganda
December 2, 2019 – Scientific American Publishes Conspiratorial, Anti-Medical Rant Aimed at Dr. Jennifer Gunter
November 27, 2019 – Thanksgiving at Panera Bread Is Wasteful and Could Kill You
November 21, 2019 – Germany Will Fine Parents Who Refuse to Vaccinate Their Children
November 20, 2019 – What the Hulk? 9/11 Truther Mark Ruffalo Testifies to Congress on Science
November 19, 2019 – Traffic Violence: Elizabeth Warren Redefines 'Car Accident'
November 14, 2019 – Fix America's Workaholic Culture: Make Every Weekend Three Days Long
November 13, 2019 – Surgeon General Endorses Dubious Research Again, This Time on Vaping
November 12, 2019 – The 'Woke' Lancet Asks if It's Acceptable to Have Children
November 6, 2019 – Release the Franken-Nuts! GMO Chestnut Trees May Repopulate Forests
November 5, 2019 – Academic Bias Against Industry Is Toxic Hypocrisy
November 4, 2019 – Debunkers Debunked: Who Fact-Checks the Fact-Checkers?
October 31, 2019 – Steven Pinker Is Wrong. We Do Live in a Post-Truth Society
October 31, 2019 – Lundy Bancroft: An Anti-Vaxxer Who Thinks All Men Are Abusers
October 29, 2019 – Former Sen. Kay Hagan Died of Tickborne Powassan Virus. What Is That?
October 21, 2019 – Scientific American Says 5G Is Dangerous, Vegetables Are Junk Food
October 18, 2019 – U.S. Navy Files Patent for Nuclear Fusion. How Realistic Is It?
October 17, 2019 – Leptospirosis in Dogs: We Can't Blame Anti-Vaxxers for This One
October 15, 2019 – Beer Flavor, Not Alcohol, May Be What Makes Drinkers Happy
October 10, 2019 – Why Politicians Aren't Incentivized to Fix Big Problems Like Homelessness
October 10, 2019 – Vaping Facts, Myths, and Health Risks
October 9, 2019 – Tincture of Elderberry: How a Professor Poisoned Herself with Cyanide
October 9, 2019 – After Marijuana Was Legalized, Teenager Use Decreased
October 4, 2019 – Nuclear Power is the Only Realistic Option, So We Need a Good Waste Plan
October 2, 2019 – Starving Cancer by Cutting Off Its Favorite Foods, Glucose and Glutamine
September 30, 2019 – Cancer Causes: Should We Fear Alcohol, Diet, Pollution, or Something Else?
September 20, 2019 – The Trouble with Climate Strike and Doomsday Prophesying
September 19, 2019 – Teen Vaping Doubles Since 2017, But There's a Silver Lining
September 17, 2019 – EEE Virus: Should We Fear Eastern Equine Encephalitis?
September 16, 2019 – California's New Vaccine Laws Should Be a Model for All States
September 12, 2019 – Science and Health Questions for Tonight's Democratic Debate
September 10, 2019 – I'm No Longer Immune to Measles
September 10, 2019 – Everything Goes to Pot: Myths Are Driving FDA, CDC Vaping Policy
September 5, 2019 – Infectious Disease: Things Have Not Gotten as Stupid as They Are Going to Get
September 4, 2019 – If RFK, Jr. Likes Your Article, It Might Get Retracted
September 3, 2019 – Suicides Surge by 12% in UK, But They Can Be Prevented
August 29, 2019 – NYT's Eric Lipton Defends Anti-Vaxxers as Measles Ravages Europe
August 28, 2019 – No, Steve Jobs Isn't Alive in Egypt; Stop the Conspiracy Before It Spreads
August 27, 2019 – Vaccine Could Prevent Nearly 75% of HPV-Associated Cancers
August 26, 2019 – The Atlantic Says We're Fatter Today than in the '80s Because of Chemicals, Antidepressants, Microbiome. True?
August 22, 2019 – The Not-So-Charmed Life of a Junk Science Debunker
August 20, 2019 – Scientific American Says Vegetables Are Toxic, Sugary Snacks
August 19, 2019 – No, Fluoride Doesn't Lower IQ. It Fails to Satisfy Hill's Criteria of Causality
August 13, 2019 – 'Harmless' Measles Kills a Flight Attendant. Anti-Vaxxers Are to Blame
August 12, 2019 – On Glyphosate, Who Do You Trust: UCSF or Everybody Else?
August 8, 2019 – Immunotherapy for Migraines: Attack of the Antibodies
August 7, 2019 – Chipotle Probably Won't Give You Cancer. But Food Poisoning? Possibly
August 7, 2019 – How Big Pharma Uses Logically Impossible Patents to Block Innovation