My Articles

September 21, 2021 – The Language of COVID: A Primer
September 14, 2021 – Opioid Deprivation and Suicide: Washington Post Weighs In
September 10, 2021 – Cancer Drugs To Treat COVID? Color Me Skeptical
September 8, 2021 – Can Your Farts Smell Delicious? Theoretically, Yes.
September 6, 2021 – Don't Shoot the Messenger RNA: Blame the Virus, Not the Vaccine
September 2, 2021 – Can a Tube Up Your Butt Replace a Ventilator? Maybe
August 30, 2021 – Did I Just Get My COVID Booster From RFK Jr. At CVS?
August 27, 2021 – Environmental Working Group Doesn't Want You to Rub a Peach on Your Face
August 22, 2021 – Doctors, Nurses Both Want Boosters. Others? Not So Much.
August 19, 2021 – Convalescent Plasma: Another COVID Dud
August 18, 2021 – It's Booster Time ... For Everyone?? Now??
August 16, 2021 – Pain Patients are the Casualties of the War on Drugs: Drs. Singer and Bloom in The Philadelphia Inquirer
August 13, 2021 – Cruel & Unusual Punishment: Comments from Pain Sufferers
August 9, 2021 – ACSH Advisor Dr. Jeffrey Singer Challenges The False Narrative In A Federalist Society Panel Discussion About the Opioid Crisis
August 5, 2021 – A Bad Day for Antibe, and Pain Patients
August 3, 2021 – JAMA Study: Forced Opioid Tapering Harms People. Gee, What a Surprise.
August 3, 2021 – Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs: Effects on Opioid Prescribing and Drug Overdose Mortality
July 29, 2021 – CDC's Re-masking Guidelines Are A Logistical Nightmare, and a Cop Out
July 27, 2021 – 1 Molecule of 'Vinegar' and Voila: The Delta Variant
July 25, 2021 – NY Times Hammers Anti-Vaxxer Joe Mercola. But ACSH Got There Much Sooner.
July 20, 2021 – What Gives the Ocean Its Wonderful Smell? A Vile Chemical
July 19, 2021 – 2020 Drug Deaths Spiked 30%. And Pain Pills Had NOTHING to Do With It
July 16, 2021 – If Cash is No Longer King, What Does that Make Stupid Pennies?
July 13, 2021 – All Vaccines Are Not Created Equal: 'Evidence' from a Texas Wedding
July 9, 2021 – Better Get Vaccinated Or One of Those Greek Letters Is Gonna Get You
July 6, 2021 – Minerals With Insane Names
July 2, 2021 – Drinking & Driving on July 4th? Can You Beat a Breathalyzer Test?
July 1, 2021 – PROP's Self-Serving Letter to the AMA Must Be Addressed. My Comments
June 24, 2021 – COVID Long-Haul Symptoms May Be Caused By Another Virus
June 21, 2021 – NY Times COVID Pill Article Reveals ‘Willful Ignorance’ About Drug Discovery
June 16, 2021 – FDA Must Act to Correct CDC's 2016 Opioid Dosage Bungling. Here Are My Comments.
June 15, 2021 – Aspirin Reduces Ventilation and Deaths in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients
June 11, 2021 – What's Worse, COVID or Online Dating?
June 7, 2021 – A Victory Over Alzheimer's? Not So Fast
June 3, 2021 – Is Benzene in Sunscreen Bad News?
June 3, 2021 – 3 Products CVS Shouldn't Be Selling
June 2, 2021 – Three Things You Probably Don't Know About the Ocean (2021)
May 27, 2021 – Iodine is Mighty Fine, and Sublime(s)
May 24, 2021 – Comments to the FDA: Opioid Dosing Based on Milligram Morphine Equivalents Is Unscientific
May 18, 2021 – In Massachusetts, as Elsewhere, It’s the Prohibition, Not the Prescriptions
May 18, 2021 – The Great Poison Ivy Debate of 2021
May 17, 2021 – Another Pharma Bait-and-Switch. This Time It's 'Zantac.'
May 8, 2021 – Biden Wants to Break COVID Vaccine Patents. He Should Tread Very Carefully.
May 4, 2021 – What Not To Do After You Flush a Public Toilet
April 30, 2021 – Opioid Policy Concerns? Here's How the CDC 'Responds' To Letters
April 26, 2021 – Antibiotic Strategies for Success. A Bridge to Nowhere?
April 23, 2021 – The Chemistry of Delta-8 ‘New and Improved’ THC
April 19, 2021 – Ringing in Your Ears? It's All in Your Head. An Interview with Dr. Craig Kasper.
April 16, 2021 – Dr. Jeffrey Singer's Statement on 'An Epidemic Within a Pandemic'
April 15, 2021 – A New Old COVID Drug and Maybe An Answer to the Asthma Mystery