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January 30, 2020 – Bravo Ontario; Forced Opioid Tapering is (Mercifully) Ending
January 28, 2020 – With Straight Face, Yale Says Fracking Causes Sexually-Transmitted Infections
January 26, 2020 – Recycled Pee, Loud Talkers, And A Coin Too Small To See- Odd Science Medical and News Of The Week.
January 21, 2020 – Skatole - A Natural Monstrosity in Perfume, Parliaments, Produce and Poop
January 17, 2020 – Bizarre Medical And Science News of the Week
January 16, 2020 – 5 Things You Might Not Know About Heroin
January 15, 2020 – Pink, Orange and Green Urine & a Color Chemistry Lesson? Oui
January 9, 2020 – Esters: Nature's Parfumerie
January 7, 2020 – 4 Prescription Drugs People Love
January 3, 2020 – My Mother Tried to 'Kill' Her Family! Beware of the Asymptomatic Norovirus Carrier
January 1, 2020 – New Nitrite Meat Cancer Scare Is A Bunch Of Baloney
December 30, 2019 – Wake Up! There's A New Sleeping Pill
December 30, 2019 – BPA Alarmists Are Beating A Dead Monomer - Enough Already
December 19, 2019 – Survivor's Tale: An Interview With Richard the Penis Fish
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?