Chemistry

The Toxic Chemicals In Your Organic Pumpkin: Happy Halloween!

Halloween is just a few days away so prior to worrying about razor blades in candy or kids getting run down in the streets you may want to think about pumpkins. They are full of toxic chemicals. Even organic pumpkins. Andy Brunning, of the Compound Interes ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 14 2024 - 10:33am

Here All The Certified Organic Foods With Carcinogens You Need To Avoid This Thanksgiving

Let's say your Generation Z child is concerned about chemicals in your Thanksgiving meal and you want to avoid that awkward moment when they don't look up from their phones while saying "OK Boomer" as you try to explain to them that all ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 26 2024 - 10:51am

How Cranberries Set Off The Chemophobia Craze

On Sept. 6, 1958, the “natural” food movement and chemophobia as we know it were born. On that day, the Food Additives Amendment of 1958, which modified the U.S. Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938, came into force. Also known as the Delaney Clause, it st ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 27 2024 - 10:44am

Toxic Free Future Math Error Means Your Spatula Is Safe After All, But It Always Was

If you're an agenda-driven, lawyer-funded epidemiologist and really want to move the needle in media on scaring people, be so bad at math- literally the only thing an epidemiologist does- that you are off by an order of magnitude. Because if 60 x 7000 ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 16 2024 - 12:41pm

War On Science: Mice Are Not Little People Even If An Academic Hates Glyphosate

A recent paper claims the common weedkiller known as glyphosate gives mice Alzheimer's and therefore is a risk to humans. Arizona State University researchers created an association between glyphosate exposure in mice and symptoms of neuroinflammatio ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 23 2024 - 12:12pm

For Christmas, 600,000 Kids Should Get A Biopesticide Against Mosquitoes That Kill

GMOs had quietly been in use for decades when they became controversial- for saving a fruit in Hawaii that legacy techniques like breeding and chemicals had not. The Rainbow Papaya became a home run for genetic engineering, the first genetically rescued or ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 25 2024 - 9:49am

Homeopathic Effects Of Pesticides? And Climate Change Will Make It Worse

A recent paper claims that even at low doses pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides are changing the behavior of insects. Though they are not able to show how it is happening, the authors use 'needs more testing' rhetoric to call on governments t ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 1 2025 - 4:52pm

Homeopathic Chemophobia- Pregnant Women Impacted Most

Blood samples of pregnant women have detectable levels of chemicals and that 'chemical cocktail' may pose "neurotoxic risk", according to a paper published in Science whose senior author is strangely on the board of reviewing editors at ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 6 2025 - 8:46am

The Science Of The Root Beer Float

A few days ago, while talking about mundane business issues, I learned that today, August 19th, was the birthday of that famous childhood delight, the 'black cow', what would later be called a root beer float. If you are not up on your carbonated ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 8 2025 - 7:02pm

USDA Awards Grant To Study Acidic Coatings To Protect Organic Food From Bacteria

Have you purchased organic food and wondered what the chemical is that you need to wash off? Those are alkaline wax-based coatings, designed to preserve food so it looks nice longer. Just like conventional growers use. But chemical wax coatings made includ ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 23 2025 - 12:44pm