We’re Not In Europe Any More: BfR Statement On EDCs Embraces The Risk-Based...
Last week the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) released a consensus statement on criteria for identifying endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) that could input to the European...
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Alternative Medicine: What The Public Needs Is Responsible, Critical Assessments
As I am new here, it might be a good idea to briefly introduce myself. I am a physician, trained in Germany, whose very first post as a freshly-backed doctor happened to be in Germany’s only...
View ArticleSweet Irony: The Environmental Impacts Of GMO Sugar Science Denial
Several times a year I find myself exiting the Florida’s Turnpike at Yeehaw Junction and heading south. When I get to the small town of Okeechobee I take a left and head down Route 98 through...
View ArticleEndocrine Disruption: A New Strategy?
Slama et al. (2016) recently published a paper on issues relevant to setting regulations for endocrine disrupting substances in the European Union.1 The authors discuss options associated with these...
View ArticleItalian Food Scientists Are Tired Of Phony Cheese
Technological advances have made it rather easy to detect food fraud. The seafood industry, in particular, is rife with dishonesty. In 2014, the Los Angeles Times reported that 93 percent of fish...
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Does Acupuncture Cause Adultery?
Acupuncture, like most other alternative therapies, is particular popular for indications that are:1. chronic2. associated with a high burden of suffering,3. not easily treatable with conventional...
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Ancient Alcohol Aficionados
You might think microbreweries are novel and trendy. Okay, they may be trendy but they are not novel. An ancient microbrewery dating around 5,000 years old was recently unearthed in China at the...
View ArticleTrump Or Clinton: Who Is Better For Science?
The 2016 presidential election has been conspicuously light on substance, particularly on matters of science and policy. In an effort to provide some clarity to voters who place an emphasis on science,...
View ArticleHow A Former Naturopath Can Help Unravel The Trickery of Alternative Medicine
Just a few years ago, I was a practicing naturopathic doctor. I considered myself to be a primary care physician who had been trained in the best of two worlds: supposedly, one was modern medicine and...
View ArticleBetter Brains With Beer
Some cultures have demonized alcohol while others have welcomed it. Modern research has confirmed that over indulgence in alcohol is bad for you but also shown that moderate drinking increases health...
View ArticleThe Magic Number 3? Maybe Not.
Whenever there’s a task to be done or governance to be exercised, we tend to organize for it in threes. A single power center is unworkable, as it can easily lead to dictatorship. Two is not so good...
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Dear California: Why Is Farming Science A Bad Thing Again?
For decades we have been told that salmon is good for us, for everything from heart health to brain function. And we should eat more of it.But if more people actually listened to those dietary...
View ArticleEU Commission Criteria On Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals — A Deft Political...
On June 15 the EU Commission (EC) issued its highly anticipated “scientific criteria” for identifying Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs). Now that the dust has settled, and stakeholders around the...
View ArticleA Flexible Evolving Approach To Computing
We already must deal with computers too much rather than too little, and there is already lots of advanced computing done also for example in materials science and nanotechnology, for example molecular...
View ArticleHow Much Light Does A Proton Contain ?
Gavin Salam's talk at the "Altarelli Memorial" session of the ICNFP 2016 conference, which is presently taking place in Kolimbari (Crete), was very interesting and I wish to report here about it.
View ArticleMind The (Risk Perception) Gap On BPA
It is commonly perceived that natural chemicals are safe while manmade substances may be harmful. These perceptions, however, if not supported by scientific evidence, can result in risk perception...
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This House Is Crap
Life isn’t always easy, but some beetles simply behave reckless.Trying to get your eggs inside a colony of murderous all-consuming red woodants (Formica rufa, see the picturebelow) is simply asking for...
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Hugh Hefner's Wife Was Not Poisoned By Breast Implants
Crystal Hefner, wife of Playboy entrepreneur Hugh Hefner, recently elected to have her breast implants removed because she believed that they “were slowly poisoning her.” This was after she read...
View ArticleSYRINA: A Trojan Horse For Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals?
Several weeks ago, I wrote about the European Commission’s (EC) proposed scientific criteria to identify endocrine disrupting chemicals and highlighted what I, along with many others, believe are its...
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Top Scientists Chastise Greenpeace
The Nobel Prize was established upon the death of scientist and inventor, Alfred Nobel
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