Chemistry

A study by the Silent Spring Institute(1), with funding from the politically sympathetic National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences during the days of organic industry keynote speaker and…

An unknown methane-producing process is likely at work in the hidden ocean beneath the icy shell of Saturn's moon Enceladus, suggests a new study published in Nature Astronomy by scientists at the…

Gold should be uniformly scattered throughout the Earth's crust, not in giant deposits, because it is unreactive. It is one of the most inert metals in the whole Periodic Table, it doesn't easily…

As Carl Sagan once said, “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” You may have recently read some extraordinary claims that total sperm count has dramatically declined among “Western…

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, located in San Francisco, is unsurprisingly  the most 'progressive' appeals court in the United States. That their judges are so…

A new paper uses emotional verbiage like "forever chemicals" and sketchy correlation to try and claim that fires are not what firefighters should be worried about when the alarm rings, it's the…

Beer has been important throughout human history. Given how dangerous water was in the past, it is arguably true that civilization would not exist without beer. Yet if you make your own, you have to…

Before 2020, it’s likely the word “antimicrobial” did not often cross your mind. Perhaps you walked down the cleaning aisle in the grocery store and saw a disinfectant with the phrase “Kills 99.9% of…

“A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.” ― Karl Popper1 A column by Nick Kristof in the New York Times first alerted me to a newly published book entitled Count Down: How Our Modern…

Imagine you hire a plumber and he needs to work on your plumbing and instead of coming over to fix that he sends his cousin who owns a lawn service. That is analogous to what is happening at EPA…