epidemiology

In Czechoslovakia, there was a time when parents had to decide whether to tell a child that Russia was not your friend and that communism was a failed system. The parents had to judge when the child was ready. 

I recently wrote about a nonsensical study claiming that artificially sweetened drinks contribute to cognitive decline. It was nonsense.

Wanna know what annoys me? (Perhaps a better question is what doesn't annoy me.) Near the top of this very long list is the constant and mostly nonsensical war on all things sweet.

The recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Monsanto v.

A new study in the journal Aging found that people, especially men, who have higher blood levels of the amino acid tyrosine tended to have slightly shorter lifespans.

Join Cameron English, Dr. Chuck Dinerstein and Dr. Josh Bloom on Episode 129 of the Science Dispatch podcast as they discuss:

Join Cameron English and  Dr. Chuck Dinerstein on Episode 114 of the Science Dispatch podcast as they discuss:

Pseudoscience has recently been rampaging in the US. While much of it concerns vaccines, an "oldie" is again making the rounds: the myth that HIV is not the sole cause of AIDS.

Join Cameron English and Dr. Chuck Dinerstein on Episode 82 of the Science Dispatch podcast as they discuss: