When anyone says "arsenic" and people automatically respond with 鈥減oison.鈥� Of course they are right. There is no doubt that arsenic can kill you. And it can do so quickly by disrupting the...
I don't believe they do but I keep hearing this from many of my friends and I would like to shut them up once and for all. If you have any studies or papers you could refer me to I would be ever so...
How do you get the public鈥檚 attention these days? Just come up with yet another scare about some consumer item. The best is a scare about some item that we thought was safe and wholesome. Like...
Siobahn O鈥機onnor and Alexandra Spunt are two very pleasant ladies who came to see me when they were doing research for their recently published book, No More Dirty Looks. I was a little...
Hippocrates used a powder made from the skeletons of mice. Pliny the Elder used burnt eggshells, and the ancient Arabs resorted to twigs from the Arak shrub. What were they trying to do? Clean...
Just looking at the list of ingredients on an antiperspirant or deodorant makes some people sweat. That鈥檚 because they鈥檝e heard about how some of the components have been linked with breast cancer...
Only in Hollywood would birds ever be given a form of birth control. According to the Argyle Civic Association, the group leading the contraceptive initiative, the birds are just too numerous. Not...
Repeat after me: 鈥淩epetition does not confer truth.鈥澛營f you go by the frequency with which media reports scream about us poor souls walking the proverbial plank, prodded by the sword of...
Homeopathy is a controversial 鈥渁lternative鈥� practice. In 2012,聽Dr. Joe expressed his views in a series of columns in The Montreal Gazette - Homeopathy: Delusion through Dilution - which triggered a...
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