My Articles

November 14, 2020 – What Would it Be Like if Pain Patients Sang From ‘West Side Story'?
November 8, 2020 – My 94-Year Old Mother is Not a Drug Addict. But She's Being Treated Like One.
November 5, 2020 – Should You Be Allowed to Drive After Being Given Propofol?
October 27, 2020 – All the Chemistry You Never Wanted to Know About Heroin, & More
October 25, 2020 – Do You Have 'Pandemic Stomach?' An Interview With Gastroenterologist Dr. Michael Glick
October 22, 2020 – Drs. Bloom and Seley-Radtke in the Baltimore Sun: 'Herd Immunity' is a Bad Idea.
October 14, 2020 – It's the Fentanyl, Stupid. But Politicians Still Target Pain Pills.
October 12, 2020 – How Long Can Coronavirus Survive on Surfaces?
October 8, 2020 – A Bluetooth 'Smart Chastity Belt' For Men is Just Nuts
October 7, 2020 – The Environmental Defense Fund's Silly Food Chemical Claim
October 4, 2020 – 'The COVID Blues' - A Song of the Times.
October 1, 2020 – How Safe Is Air Travel In COVID Time? A JAMA Article Says It's Safer Than You Think
October 1, 2020 – When it Comes to Chemicals, Silent Spring Institute Should Stay Silent
September 29, 2020 – How Do Bacteria Eat Plastic?
September 25, 2020 – A Canadian Patient Advocacy Group Presses the CMA on Opioid Denial. With Help from ACSH
September 25, 2020 – Stop Calling Fentanyl a Synthetic Opioid. It's Confusing.
September 22, 2020 – Can Phenylbutyric Acid (PBA) 'Unstress' Cells and Tame COVID-19?
September 18, 2020 – Snake Oil in the Early 1900s Was Radioactive. Seriously.
September 15, 2020 – You Need No Longer Fear Dr. Duck's Deadly Buttons!
September 11, 2020 – An Abysmal Chemistry Lesson About Bismuth
September 7, 2020 – Oral vs. IV Tylenol in the Elderly: The 'Let's Kick Granny Down the Stairs' Study
September 4, 2020 – Hair Dye and Cancer, the Chemistry Behind the Scare
August 28, 2020 – Fact Checking the Opioid Fact Checkers. And Kolodny Eats His Words.
August 26, 2020 – What Poisoned Alexei Navalny? And the WSJ Needs A Chemistry Lesson.
August 24, 2020 – Remdesivir Disappoints. Again.
August 17, 2020 – Date-Rape Drug GHB is Back With 2 Clandestine Cousins. And a Chemistry Lesson From Hell.
August 13, 2020 – Is Repurposing Drugs the Way to Beat Covid? Maybe. Maybe not. An Expert Weighs In.
August 11, 2020 – Is Your Caffeine Natural or Synthetic? Perhaps the Most Pointless Study Ever.
August 10, 2020 – Deaths Are an Incomplete Measure of Covid-19’s Impact
August 7, 2020 – Why Does Ammonium Nitrate Explode?
August 5, 2020 – Antibe's Non-Opioid Pain Drug Otenaproxesul Looks Good in Phase IIb Trials
August 2, 2020 – Back to School in COVID Time: An Interview with a Terrified New York Teacher
August 1, 2020 – Lions and Tigers and Gummy Bears. And Diarrhea. A Pantload of Chemistry
July 27, 2020 – Coronavirus Disinfectant Products, All 470 of Them. Not as Fascinating as You'd Think.
July 23, 2020 – Hydroxychloroquine is Dead and Buried. So, Let's Dig it Up and Bury it Again.
July 21, 2020 – Rational Vaccines Continues to Battle Herpes, This Time According to the Playbook
July 16, 2020 – ACSH Advisor Prof. Katherine Seley-Radtke's War on COVID in Baltimore Sun
July 12, 2020 – In California, Umbrellas Prevent Cancer and Cause It
July 8, 2020 – Lysol Makes a Killing On COVID. What Are the Chemicals in the Can?
July 2, 2020 – Vaccines Might Not Be the Only Way to Treat COVID-19. Drs. Radtke and Bloom in the Baltimore Sun
June 30, 2020 – In Bars, It's COVID Cocktail Hour
June 25, 2020 – Delicious Irony - GNC Files For Bankruptcy Because of COVID
June 22, 2020 – Maximum Opioid Doses: A Pharmacological Abomination
June 17, 2020 – Florida Bar Debacle Teaches Us Precisely the Wrong Way to Limit COVID-19
June 15, 2020 – FDA Pulls the Plug On Malaria Drugs For COVID. It Was Inevitable.
June 15, 2020 – Your Yummy Morning Cup of Pesticide Won't Cause, or Prevent, COVID-19
June 9, 2020 – Baldness/Severe COVID Study Coughs Up a Big Hairball
June 5, 2020 – Will Inhaled Remdesivir Make You Breathe Easy? Maybe
June 2, 2020 – The Whelan Legacy Goes On and On...
June 1, 2020 – Merck Joins the COVID Drug Race With EIDD-2801. And A Chemistry Lesson From Hell.