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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...