My Articles

November 14, 2018 – Nickel: Lab Fires, Scary Toxicity, Eczema, And Cancer. But Not Really A Coin.
November 12, 2018 – What's the Blood-Brain Barrier & How Do You Cross It?
November 6, 2018 – There's Gold In Them Thar Mold
November 5, 2018 – Who Is Telling The Truth About Prescription Opioid Deaths? DEA? CDC? Neither?
October 30, 2018 – Sierra Club's Ignorance of Chemistry Reaches New Heights
October 23, 2018 – Opioid Policies Based On Morphine Milligram Equivalents Are Automatically Flawed
October 18, 2018 – Sea Salt: Possibly The World's Dumbest Product
October 17, 2018 – Dirty Sheets: In Case You Need Another Reason To Stay Out Of The Hospital
October 16, 2018 – Why Some Drugs Make Other Drugs Last Longer (Or Shorter)
October 15, 2018 – Dietary Supplements Work (When You Add a Real Drug to Them)
October 10, 2018 – Guess What? There's Drano In Your Eye Drops
October 9, 2018 – FDA Food Additive Ban Is Unscientific And Irrational
October 7, 2018 – Could Tea Tree Oil Treat Herpes? Virology Says Maybe
October 4, 2018 – Popular Science's La Croix Coverage: Chemistry Goes Flat
October 4, 2018 – Food Poisoning: Norovirus Will Get You But Listeria Might Kill You
October 2, 2018 – Why Is HIV Not Spread By Mosquitos?
September 30, 2018 – When Aspirin Goes Bad Is It Bad?
September 27, 2018 – Foolish US Drug Policies Keep Making Things Worse - Now It's Meth (Again)
September 26, 2018 – Glyphosate Bee Death Story Is Bee-S
September 24, 2018 – Recreational Cancer: Blame Lifestyle and Luck, Not Trace Chemicals
September 19, 2018 – For Why The Bell Tolls - Celebrations In Chemo Suites Are Insensitive And Awful
September 19, 2018 – Let's Put The Ambien Sleepwalking Myth To Bed
September 17, 2018 – Magic Methyl - A Chemical So Bad Chemists Won't Use It
September 13, 2018 – Superfoods Or Superfads? Dr. David Seres Weighs In
September 12, 2018 – Are Probiotics 'Nobiotics'?
September 11, 2018 – Put Vox In The Litter Box - Same Old Plastic Scares
September 6, 2018 – Powerball Is For Suckers
September 6, 2018 – Some Cool Chemistry - Using Light To Turn Waste Plastic Into Hydrogen Fuel
September 5, 2018 – Formaldehyde Is So Dangerous That You'd Be Dead Without It
September 3, 2018 – Sorry, Your Diet Coke Is Not Calorie-Free
August 29, 2018 – WebDumB's Insane Germaphobic Advice
August 28, 2018 – Which OTC Painkillers Can You Take Together?
August 26, 2018 – Aspirin Flops Big Time In Heart Study. Is It R.I.P For ASA?
August 26, 2018 – Zap! Laser Repair Of Your Torn Retina: An Interview With Royce Chen, M.D.
August 24, 2018 – Former CDC Head Tom Frieden Is Back In The News, And It Isn't For His Terrible Science
August 23, 2018 – Sunscreen Pills Work - But Only If You Take Them And Stay Inside
August 21, 2018 – Osmium - The World's Rarest And Densest Metal
August 19, 2018 – Shades of Tuskegee - Oregon's Monstrous Experiments On Poor Pain Patients
August 18, 2018 – Should Alzheimer's Patients Have The Right To Choose Physician-Assisted Suicide?
August 15, 2018 – Disorder In The Court - A Supernaturally Dumb Lawsuit Over The Word 'Natural'
August 14, 2018 – 'ACSH is Fake News!' So Says Anti-Vax, Conspiracy-Loving Screwball
August 12, 2018 – The New York Times And Chemicals - Amateur Hour Once Again
August 9, 2018 – Then They Came For My Xanax - Opioid Madness Metastasizes
August 6, 2018 – Allergic To Vitamin B12? It's The Cobalt
August 1, 2018 – Carvone: One Molecule, Two Different Scents And Flavors
July 30, 2018 – Two Anti-Opioid Zealots Run Into A Biostatistician. Here's What Happened.
July 28, 2018 – American Academy of Pediatrics Goes Crybaby Over 'Scary' Chemicals
July 25, 2018 – Big Pharma Tames Liver Cancer And Drunks Set It Loose Again
July 23, 2018 – In Making Some Antibiotics, Bacteria Put Organic Chemists To Shame
July 17, 2018 – Naloxone and Naltrexone Look and Sound the Same, But Are Used Differently. Here's Why.