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Sep 12, 2025
“Organic” might be the most abused word in the English language. Chemists, farmers, and marketers all use it—and none of them mean the same thing. The result is a label that...
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Sep 12, 2025
Unless you live under a rock, you're aware that pickleball has become the fastest-growing sport in America, attracting tens of millions of players, especially geezers like me. Sure,...
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Sep 11, 2025
“Organic” might be the most abused word in the English language. Chemists, farmers, and marketers all use it—and none of them mean the same thing. The result is a label that...
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Aug 25, 2025
The battle is over. "Deadly" Red dye #3 has been banned, and the public will be "healthier." But the battle is meaningless because if the war were serious, MAHA would be talking...
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Jul 30, 2025
Mercury, the element, is no longer used in thermometers, but it remains at the center of a decades-long debate over vaccine safety, despite the science being crystal clear. At the...
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Jul 4, 2025
It’s more than a little ironic that proof of how badly we’ve mishandled the opioid crisis comes from West Virginia — the hardest-hit state in the U.S. and a favorite cliché in...
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Jun 20, 2025
A new Nature Medicine study made headlines with its claim that brain microplastics jumped 50% from 2016 to 2024. But the data are skewed — 2024 included Alzheimer’s brains, which...
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May 7, 2025
Three hundred fifty thousand of you are predicted to die every year from heart disease caused by exposure to plastics, a new Lancet study says. But you can rest easy; the headlines...
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May 6, 2025
Three hundred fifty thousand of you are predicted to die every year from heart disease caused by exposure to plastics, a new Lancet study says. But you can rest easy; the headlines...
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May 1, 2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and I rarely see eye to eye, but I’ll grudgingly admit he’s not entirely wrong about food dyes, though not for the reasons he thinks. His claim that dyes...
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Apr 29, 2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and I rarely see eye to eye, but I’ll grudgingly admit he’s not entirely wrong about food dyes, though not for the reasons he thinks. His claim that dyes...
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Apr 28, 2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and I rarely see eye to eye, but I’ll grudgingly admit he’s not entirely wrong about food dyes, though not for the reasons he thinks. His claim that dyes...
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Feb 28, 2025
The following is neither satire nor fiction. California’s insane Proposition 65 list contains a number of so-called carcinogens found in coffee. Yet, multiple epidemiological...
Sep 12, 2025“Organic” might be the most abused word in the English language. Chemists, farmers, and marketers all use it—and none of them mean the same thing. The result is a label that...
Sep 12, 2025Unless you live under a rock, you're aware that pickleball has become the fastest-growing sport in America, attracting tens of millions of players, especially geezers like me. Sure,...
Aug 25, 2025The battle is over. "Deadly" Red dye #3 has been banned, and the public will be "healthier." But the battle is meaningless because if the war were serious, MAHA would be talking...
Jul 30, 2025Mercury, the element, is no longer used in thermometers, but it remains at the center of a decades-long debate over vaccine safety, despite the science being crystal clear. At the...
Jul 4, 2025It’s more than a little ironic that proof of how badly we’ve mishandled the opioid crisis comes from West Virginia — the hardest-hit state in the U.S. and a favorite cliché in...
Jun 20, 2025A new Nature Medicine study made headlines with its claim that brain microplastics jumped 50% from 2016 to 2024. But the data are skewed — 2024 included Alzheimer’s brains, which...
May 7, 2025Three hundred fifty thousand of you are predicted to die every year from heart disease caused by exposure to plastics, a new Lancet study says. But you can rest easy; the headlines...
May 1, 2025Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and I rarely see eye to eye, but I’ll grudgingly admit he’s not entirely wrong about food dyes, though not for the reasons he thinks. His claim that dyes...
Feb 28, 2025The following is neither satire nor fiction. California’s insane Proposition 65 list contains a number of so-called carcinogens found in coffee. Yet, multiple epidemiological...