鈥淟aughter is the best medicine!鈥� That鈥檚 an old adage, maybe even dating back to the biblical era. The book of Proverbs in the Old Testament proposes that 鈥渁聽 merry heart doeth good like a medicine:...
When John Milton wrote in Paradise Lost that the mind can make a heaven of hell and a hell of heaven, without realizing it, he was talking about the 鈥減lacebo鈥� and the 鈥渘ocebo鈥� effect. 鈥淧lacebo鈥�...
Eventually we will run out of oil.聽 There is no doubt about that.聽 The earth is of a fixed size, and the amount of oil stored in the ground is not infinite.聽 We take it out of the ground and do not...
Mention 鈥淪ilent Spring鈥� and thoughts immediately turn to Rachel Carson鈥檚 epic in which she alerted readers to the risks of pesticides. But long before, way back in the 1940s, Australian sheep...
There are two myths that are a constant irritation in the fight against pseudoscience. One is the equating of the term 鈥渃hemical鈥� with 鈥渢oxin,鈥� the other is the suggestion that 鈥渘atural鈥� substances...
