My Articles
March 14, 2024 –
For (Key Lime) Pi Day: The World's Best Recipe
March 8, 2024 –
General Tso's Chicken: History, Evolution, Biology, and Chemistry. All on One Plate!
March 1, 2024 –
Absence of a Plant-Based Carburetor is Deeply Disturbing
February 27, 2024 –
The Environmental Working Group Recycles Old Tricks: Now it's a 'New' Pesticide
February 23, 2024 –
Death Without Pain: An Interview With Laurie Engel
February 15, 2024 –
Is Music in a Minor Key Inherently Sad? A Chemist-Pianist Weighs In.
February 13, 2024 –
The Things We Do For Love: The Atomic Penile Pump From Hell
February 7, 2024 –
Why Is Your Underwear Yellow in Front and Brown in the Back: A Chemistry Lesson From the Bowels of Hell
January 31, 2024 –
Does Vertex's Novel Pain Drug VX-548 Really Work? As Clear As Mud.
January 23, 2024 –
These New Synthetic Opioids Could Make the Fentanyl Crisis Look like ‘The Good Old Days’
January 11, 2024 –
More Pharma Sleaze Involving GSK. Again. Welcome to Voltarengate.
January 9, 2024 –
Playing Gummy Roulette
January 4, 2024 –
CBD Oil For Dental Pain? Maybe
December 28, 2023 –
Tylenol Plus Advil Combo: Innovation or Exploitation?
December 26, 2023 –
Josh Bloom – My Favorite Things in 2023
December 20, 2023 –
Penile Fractures: A Christmas Carol
December 20, 2023 –
DEA Chasing Its Tail Again: This Time, It's 'Synthetic Cannabinoids'
December 10, 2023 –
More Opioid Idiocy: The '100 Day Cough' and a Date With the Firing Squad
December 5, 2023 –
Sickle Cell Anemia: Bad Luck and Simple Chemistry
December 1, 2023 –
Biden-Xi Meeting: Can Fentanyl Be Curtailed by Banning Precursor Chemicals?
November 30, 2023 –
10 Years Ago Today: My First Publication as a Pain Patient Advocate in the New York Post
November 29, 2023 –
Big Bidet Aims to Wipe Out Charmin
November 20, 2023 –
Supplement Schadenfreude: FDA Hammers 'Balance of Nature'
November 20, 2023 –
Urban Myth Busted In Time For Thanksgiving: Turkey Does Not Make You Sleepy
November 17, 2023 –
'Smart Drops' for Dumb Consumers
November 14, 2023 –
'Pink' AKA U47700: Another Ingredient in the 'Kolodny Kocktail'
November 7, 2023 –
Thanksgiving Silly Scares: Don't Eat, Drink, or Drive
November 1, 2023 –
Scientists Were Wrong For 5+ Decades About How Certain Cancer Drugs Work. Here's Why It Matters.
October 29, 2023 –
If You're a *Poison Expert* it Is Unwise to Poison Your Wife. A Colchicine Lesson.
October 24, 2023 –
Garlic Breath? Mouthwash Won't Work. Here's Why
October 24, 2023 –
Toxic Drug Completely Wipes Out Testicular Cancer. Here's Why.
October 19, 2023 –
All About Advil
October 16, 2023 –
Some People React to Caffeine, Some Don't. Here's Why
October 11, 2023 –
What's the Most Nauseating TV Drug Ad?
October 9, 2023 –
‘Another One Bites the Dust': Dedicated to Anti-Opioid Zealots
October 2, 2023 –
A (Badly Needed) Math Lesson for Sen. Joe Manchin
September 27, 2023 –
'Vegan Tylenol' and the Pain of Scientific Ignorance
September 27, 2023 –
Paxlovid Works in the 'Real World.' Here's How.
September 21, 2023 –
Is the Result of 'Fentanyl Chemicals' Crackdown, Deadlier Nitazenes?
September 19, 2023 –
Cigarettes Are Sexy! Who Knew?
September 18, 2023 –
Sudafed PE Is Worthless (Just Like the Drug Policies That Put It on the Shelf)
September 15, 2023 –
Laws Based on Rapid Drug Tests Are Unscientific and Unfair
September 12, 2023 –
At Least Paqui ‘Vicious’ Chips Are Non-GMO
September 7, 2023 –
Beneficent DEA Allows Us to Switch Pharmacies. How Gracious of Them!
September 5, 2023 –
Jessica Biel's Ridiculous 'Kinder' 'Farm' Children's Medicine
August 31, 2023 –
Fenethylline: ‘Drug of Jihad'