Numerous Internet posts attempt to scare dog owners with questions like 鈥淚s It a Dog Food Aide or Automotive Antifreeze?鈥� The reference is to propylene glycol, a chemical added to some dog foods to...
Virtually no day goes by without an alert from the media about some chemical in the environment that is suspected of harming our health. It may do this by disrupting our hormones, triggering cancer...
Solvents! What do you think of? Nail polish remover? Dry cleaning fluid? Yes, those are solvents. But there鈥檚 a lot more to the story. Chemistry would not be possible without the use solvents. Most...
Judging by the hate mail directed his way, you would think that Dr. Alan Dangour had suggested banning baby kissing. In fact, all the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine nutritionist did...
When it comes to health matters, scientists rarely make statements that do not begin with 鈥渕ay.鈥澛� But here is one.聽 Excessive exposure to sunlight causes skin cancer!聽 There鈥檚 no 鈥渕ay鈥� about it.聽...
Why would anyone oppose a technology that dramatically increases crop yields and protects farmers from excessive exposure to pesticides? Because of irrational fears about the technology involved,...
Since the late 1940s, so-called 鈥渟ubtherapeutic鈥� doses of antibiotics have been routinely added to animal feed to prevent disease and to increase feed efficiency.聽 Exactly why animals put on weight...
I have never really been hungry. Sure, I鈥檝e had occasions when I could hardly wait to wolf down a slice of pizza or a serving of veggie goulash and I鈥檒l admit to looking forward eagerly to the end...
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