John Wayne did not die with forty pounds of fecal matter impacted in his colon. Where does such a preposterous notion come from? Generally one of two sources. The nonsense stems either from people...
I think the time has come to panic. But not about catching the H1N1 鈥渟wine flu.鈥 And not about the alleged risks of the vaccine that can protect against it. For the vast majority of people, the flu...
It is a very small molehill. But to the folks at the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics (CSC) it seems more like Mount Everest. This organization鈥檚 recently released report features a cute baby smothered...
In 1951 two brothers, Yugoslavian refugees, brought a drug called Krebiozen to the US and attempted to develop it privately as a cancer treatment. They kept the identity of drug secret, only saying...
So I鈥檓 sitting here, staring at a couple of close up pictures of some person鈥檚 eye area. I see crows鈥 feet in both. Are there fewer feet in the bottom picture? Maybe. If I look with a magnifying...
There is no tooth fairy. There鈥檚 no Easter bunny. There鈥檚 not even a Santa Claus. There are no geese that lay golden eggs. There鈥檚 no golden fleece. And there are no simple ways to lose weight. But...
Somebody is after Procter and Gamble and it is hard to know why. Years ago there was the allegation that the company鈥檚 corporate logo hid a picture of the devil, then sodium lauryl sulfate, a...
You can鈥檛 keep a good quack down for long. They keep resurfacing with irritating frequency. Victoria Knight-McDowell certainly doesn鈥檛 look like a quack. She looks like a pretty elementary school...
Would any parent believe that serving Rice Krispies or Cocoa Krispies to their children can help protect them from catching the flu? You would think not. But what if that box of cereal has a banner...