My Articles

June 11, 2023 – Copper: Colors (Plenty) and Money (Not So Much)
June 6, 2023 – The Story You Thought You Knew About Thalidomide and Birth Defects is All Wrong
June 2, 2023 – Will Apple Cider Vinegar Nuke Your Stomach?
May 31, 2023 – Are Pop-Tarts Food?
May 23, 2023 – Will Pfizer's New Weight Loss Pill Silence the Ozempic Commercials?
May 22, 2023 – Pancreatic Cancer Cells Deprived of Glucose Find Another Fuel. A New Approach?
May 18, 2023 – DEA's Abuse, Prevention & Control Laws: Lacking Science, Common Sense
May 11, 2023 – FDA Panel Recommends OTC Sale of One Birth Control Pill. Time to Approve All the Rest.
May 9, 2023 – Promising Pain Meds in Development: Vertex’s VX-548
May 4, 2023 – The J-Man Chronicles: Roach-Spewing Hand Dryers and Other Atrocities
May 3, 2023 – Tetrahydrocanniboic Acid (THCA): Legal Until You Heat It, Maybe
May 2, 2023 – Could Chemicals Have Caused Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's? It's Happened Before.
April 25, 2023 – A Bit of Irony: J&J Developing Drug to Undo Liver Damage ... From Its Own Tylenol
April 19, 2023 – Making Vicodin and Percocet Safer, By Reducing the Dose of Tylenol
April 12, 2023 – Untangling the Adderall Snafu
April 7, 2023 – 'Adam and Heave' - Is Akee the Real Forbidden Fruit?
April 4, 2023 – How Does AI Handle Really Stupid Questions?
March 30, 2023 – A Chemist Chats with ChatGPT. How Does it Do?
March 21, 2023 – Reason #2 That Scheduling Tranq Won't Work - A Dreaded Chemistry Lesson From Hell
March 20, 2023 – Andrew Kolodny, With a Straight Face, Wants to Control Tranq By Scheduling It
March 20, 2023 – The J-Man Chronicles: How the Vibrating Poop Pill Threatens Democracy
March 15, 2023 – Red Tide Hits Florida's Gulf Coast: A Dreaded Neurochemistry Lesson From Hell
March 9, 2023 – Why is That Hideous Prevagen Commercial Allowed on TV?
March 7, 2023 – How the Media Got the Vinyl Chloride Risk All Wrong (Reason Magazine)
February 27, 2023 – Putting the East Palestine Train Accident in Perspective
February 22, 2023 – No, Homeopathic 'Remedies' and OTC Drugs Don't Belong on the Same Shelf
February 16, 2023 – Masks Depart, 'Stomach Flu' Arrives. Enough Already!
February 16, 2023 – Tylenol After Surgery? Why the Feds Make Patients Suffer Needless Pain (USA Today)
February 13, 2023 – Which Drugs Really Help with Motion Sickness?
February 7, 2023 – Antidepressants Fail for Pain: A Look at the Data
February 2, 2023 – Gold: An Inert Metal and Toxic Drug
January 30, 2023 – New Drug Names: A Study in Madness
January 26, 2023 – Why Does Drinking Cause Cancer?
January 24, 2023 – People Worry Hysterically About Low Risk Carcinogens. And Then They Drink
January 18, 2023 – Marijuana and Kids Don't Mix. An Interview with Dr. Roneet Lev
January 17, 2023 – The J-Man Chronicles: In Search of the Elusive Snake Clitoris
January 16, 2023 – Another One Bites The Dust: Fluvoxamine Fails As A Covid Treatment Fails. Badly
January 11, 2023 – 'Paxlovid Rebound' Isn't Real. It Never Was
January 10, 2023 – 4-ANPP: Fentanyl in Waiting
January 5, 2023 – Scoring Some Ambien at the Online Pharmacy From Hell!
December 28, 2022 – Some Opioids Get a Boost From Other Drugs, Some Don't. Here's Why
December 20, 2022 – The Annual Holiday Chemistry Lesson From Hell: How to Tell the Age of a Fruitcake
December 14, 2022 – Washington Post Takes a Swing at Fentanyl, But Fouls It Off
December 9, 2022 – What's the Deal with Hemoglobin A1c? A Glucose-Coated Chemistry Lesson From Hell
December 7, 2022 – Alabama's Incompetent and Barbaric Death Penalty 'Protocol'
December 5, 2022 – An Interview with Steve, My Roomba
December 1, 2022 – No, You Should Not Lick Frogs: A Hallucinogenic Chemistry Lesson
November 25, 2022 – What is the *Real* Shelf Life of Prescription Opioids?
November 23, 2022 – We May Have a Fentanyl Vaccine. But Will it Be Useful?
November 17, 2022 – Smart Water for Dumb Consumers