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Letting the Fizz Out of the Fizz Keeper

20 Mar 2017

A little pump called the 鈥淔izz Keeper鈥 is available in kitchen supply stores to pressurize previously opened soft drink bottles and prevent loss of carbonation. The idea appears to make sense, but...

Oil your Problems Away!

20 Mar 2017

Oh my! Yet another sure-fire detox! This time it's "oil pulling." I'm not pulling your leg with this one. The claim is that you swish oil, usually sunflower, sesame or coconut, around your mouth...

Oz鈥檚 Glow Dims

20 Mar 2017

Dr. Mehmet Oz was asked to testify in front of a U.S. Senate Transport, Commerce and Science subcommitte on fraudulent weight loss products. It is a subject he knows a fair bit about. After all he...

Green coffee beans give science a black eye

20 Mar 2017

Dr. Oz聽聽didn鈥檛 mince his words when he described the wondrous effects of green coffee bean extract. 鈥淢agical,鈥 鈥渟taggering,鈥 an 鈥渦nprecedented discovery!鈥 鈥淔inally, a cure for obesity鈥 he...

There are No Fish Genes in Tomatoes

20 Mar 2017

During a public lecture on genetic modification I described an experiment that involved enriching soybeans with the amino acid methionine. Soybeans are widely used to raise animals but are low in...

Is Physioscan a Scam?

20 Mar 2017

Here is the question that came our way: 鈥淚s Physioscan the latest hype or just old news in Naturopathy?鈥 I had never heard of PhysioScan so I looked into it. At first I thought it was a joke....

The Only Magic Out There is On A Stage

20 Mar 2017

Magical Mystery Cures" with Bob McDonald on "Doc Zone," the excellent CBC program looked at the 'anti-aging" industry. We were treated to a spectacular array of quacks outdoing each other with...

Vitamin B17 is Not a Vitamin

20 Mar 2017

You鈥檝e got to love the plot. A meteorite falls to earth and begins to ooze a revolting goo that dines on humans. It makes its way into a movie theatre, and in a classic scene, surges from the...

3D Makeup Printers are Making it Up

20 Mar 2017

Several people have sent me this video of a Harvard student "inventing" a 3-D printer that cranks out cosmetics at home. She starts out by telling us that the cosmetics industry, a $55 billion...

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