It is in paint, paper, sunscreen, cosmetics, toothpaste and food. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) lists it in its Group 2B, 鈥減ossibly carcinogenic in humans.鈥� In Europe it is...
It took me by surprise. The claim was made on TikTok by a very popular dermatologist, Dr. Charles Puza, and was picked up by BuzzFeed. Puza grew concerned when many of his patients confessed to...
鈥淲hen an immovable fact meets an unstoppable feeling.鈥� This is the title of a newsletter article from Liz Neeley, a science communicator who studied marine biology. In a mere eight words鈥攚hich play...
Buried in a court document mentioning Joe Mercola was the first reference to naprapathy I had ever seen. Joe Mercola has made a fortune selling dietary supplements and publishing health...
When Dr. Anna O. Szust emailed all of these academic journals to join their editorial boards, she did not anticipate that so many of them would approve her application within hours. In fact, she...
Mindfulness meditation is primed to save all of us from anxiety and depression, it would seem. It鈥檚 also big business: in 2015, this growing industry made nearly USD 1 billion. The money comes from...
Spend enough time watching fictional geniuses on television and you will undoubtedly see the trope of the mind palace. Brainiacs, we are told, have mind palaces, ornate libraries that live solely...
I keep teasing my analytical chemist colleagues that they are responsible for the anxiety that so many people have about chemicals invading their lives. Hardly a day goes by without some report of...
You may have heard of the impact factor. It is a number given to an academic journal (think Nature or The New England Journal of Medicine) which is often erroneously used a proxy for how good the...
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