My Articles

December 13, 2019 – Gold: Nobility, Lousy Drugs and a $666 Douche Burger. Another Chemistry Lesson From Hell.
December 9, 2019 – Rep. Sewell's 'NOPAIN' Bill Is Really 'NO-BRAIN'
December 5, 2019 – Man Boobs: Is 'Victor's Secret' The Next Cottage Industry For Male Pot Smokers?
December 3, 2019 – All the Leaves Are Brown: Chemistry Lesson Inspired By The Mamas And The Papas
December 2, 2019 – IV Tylenol As Good As Moose Urine For Post-Op Pain Control
November 29, 2019 – 'New' Opioid Crisis: Dr. Vanila Singh Warns of Adulterated Street Drugs
November 22, 2019 – Uh Oh. Keep the Mop Handy. Norovirus Makes an Early Appearance
November 20, 2019 – 2 Chemistry Professors Arrested for Having a Common Chemical. Were They Making Meth?
November 19, 2019 – Starving Environmentalists And Other Thanksgiving Cheer
November 12, 2019 – Non-Opioid Drugs That Can Be Dangerous and Habituating. Should We Ban Them?
November 9, 2019 – Bleach Death of Restaurant Manager Can Be Explained By The Simplest Chemical Reaction
November 6, 2019 – Put That In Your Pipe And (Don't) Smoke It! Fentanyl Now In Vaping Cartridges
November 4, 2019 – Diazomethane: A Deadly, Explosive, Carcinogenic Gas Made From Another Carcinogen. Aside From That It's Fine.
October 29, 2019 – It's the Pot, Stupid. We Figured Out Vaping Weeks Ago.
October 25, 2019 – DEA Channels Stalin: 'Suspicious Orders' of Opioids? Just Say Nyet
October 21, 2019 – Gee, Pain Pills Are Not the Real Killers. And the Sun Rises in the East. Who Knew?
October 18, 2019 – When Crazy Meets Crazier: California Wants to Label Tylenol a Carcinogen
October 16, 2019 – Whole Foods Sells Both 'Nitrate-Free Meat' and Nitrate Supplements. Yup.
October 15, 2019 – Can Silver Chloride Possibly Be Interesting? You Bet.
October 8, 2019 – What's Killing Vapers? A Conversation with Steve 'The Mad Chemist'
October 7, 2019 – Analyzing the Opioid Crisis: 65 Articles by Dr. Josh Bloom
October 3, 2019 – Can Nuclear Waste Be Safely Transported?
September 27, 2019 – Norovirus Vaccine 'Meets All Endpoints in 1b Study.' What Does This Mean?
September 24, 2019 – U Penn's Herpes Vaccine Looks Great in Animals. Will it Hold Up in Humans?
September 22, 2019 – Worried About Your Elderly Mother's Pain? You Should Be
September 21, 2019 – 'Expert' Kolodny Uses My Chemistry Lessons to Speak on Fentanyl - #Shameless
September 18, 2019 – Artificial Imbecility: Alexa in Your Bathroom
September 17, 2019 – NBC News' Ridiculous Flu Scare
September 16, 2019 – Pez - The World's First Smoking Cessation Product
September 10, 2019 – Can Chemistry Explain 'Vaping Lung?'
September 6, 2019 – App Converts a Smart Phone Into a Norovirus Detector; Very Clever Analytical Chemistry
September 5, 2019 – The Hypocrisy of CVS
September 3, 2019 – Rand Report on Fentanyl: Mostly Correct (but ACSH Got There Long Ago)
August 30, 2019 – NPR Doesn't Know Spit About Saliva, Nitrates or Deli Meat
August 28, 2019 – The Great Opioid Shakedown of 2019 Will Be a Pyrrhic 'Victory'
August 28, 2019 – Do Homeopathic Cows Exist?
August 27, 2019 – Blue Green Algae is Killing Dogs. And It's a Dietary Supplement.
August 21, 2019 – Bizarro World: Parents Terrified Of Chemicals Feed Toxic Supplements To Their Kids
August 13, 2019 – The EPA Grows A Pair And Takes A Stand On Glyphosate
August 13, 2019 – Leech Therapy: Bloodsuckers Sold By Bloodsuckers To Suckers
August 12, 2019 – No, You Don't Break Gilead's Patent for HIV Drugs
August 6, 2019 – Hepatitis Alphabet Soup - An Outbreak Of Confusion
August 4, 2019 – The Lunacy Continues - Now It's Music Instead Of Sedatives Before Surgery
July 30, 2019 – Florida Officials Successfully Withheld Pain Meds from Surgical Patients. Aren't They Special?
July 29, 2019 – When Artificially Sweetened Drinks Go 'Bad' Are They Bad For You?
July 25, 2019 – What Do Neutralizing Skunk Odor and Tylenol Poisoning Have in Common?
July 24, 2019 – A Royal Pain: Opioid BS from the BBC
July 17, 2019 – How Toxic Is Sumithrin (Anvil) Mosquito Spray?
July 15, 2019 – Surgeon General Backpedals on Flawed Tylenol Study. Because of ACSH.
July 12, 2019 – Dr. Aric Hausknecht Responds to SG Jerome Adams' Tylenol Recommendation