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Macropanic Over Nanoplastics?

11 Jan 2024

I keep teasing my analytical chemist colleagues that they are responsible for the anxiety that so many people have about chemicals invading their lives. Hardly a day goes by without some report of...

Vampire facials' body of evidence is anemic

5 Jan 2024

This article was originally posted in the Montreal Gazette.

What a Journal Impact Factor Is and Isn鈥檛

5 Jan 2024

You may have heard of the impact factor. It is a number given to an academic journal (think Nature or The New England Journal of Medicine) which is often erroneously used a proxy for how good the...

Skeletons in the Closet

3 Jan 2024

Dr. David Franklin鈥檚 conscience was bothering him. At first, the job he had secured in 1996 with Parke-Davis, a division of the Warner-Lambert pharmaceutical company, seemed ideal. Armed with a PhD...

Every Christmas, Quirky Science Gets to Shine

22 Dec 2023

What do you call two orthopaedic surgeons reading an electrocardiogram? A double-blind study.

The Power of Belief

20 Dec 2023

Scientifically speaking, it鈥檚 not very pleasing....

Will the Right Boots Stop You from Slipping on Ice?

15 Dec 2023

Have you ever slipped on ice and fallen on your derri猫re? At best, it is unpleasant; at worst, it can send you to the hospital with a broken bone (or even kill you). Icy sidewalks and parking lots...

Placebo effect is real, and complicated

8 Dec 2023

This article was originally posted in the Montreal Gazette.

Your Local Nutrition Shake Shop May Not Be What You Think It Is

8 Dec 2023

The woman swears to me that she is not part of Herbalife, and I believe her. But given the looks of her juice shop, you could easily mistake it for an Herbalife nutrition club when you know what to...

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