Chemistry

Chemicals To Put Out Fires Are 'Riskier' For Firefighters Than Actual Fires? Not According To Science

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 chemicals created by Evil Corporations they sh ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 13 2021 - 10:53am

Glyphosate Lawsuits: From $2 Billion To $25 Million On Their Way To $0

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 California when it comes to decisions is why they dominate ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 14 2021 - 5:45pm

The Male Reproduction Apocalypse That Never Was

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” men and that endocrine disrupters- but only the synthetic ...

Article - Kimberly Wise White - Jun 22 2021 - 11:45am

Gold Is Unreactive So How Is It In Clusters We Can Find At All?

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 react with other substances, so it should not have ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 5 2021 - 10:54am

Microbes On Enceladus? Methane On Saturn's Moon Can't Be Explained By Known Geochemical Processes

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 University of Arizona and Paris Sciences&Lettres ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 16 2021 - 11:24am

Silent Spring Institute Claims Hundreds Of Chemicals Increase Breast Cancer 'Risk'

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 Ramazzini Institute member Linda Birnbaum, claims that hund ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 23 2021 - 8:44am

Fact Check: Is Chewing Gum 'Made' Of Plastic?

A reader sent me an email asking about chewing gum and if it was really made of plastic and my first thought was 'Why ask me? Do what scientists do and go to Google, skip the first 10 entries, which will all be gamed by SEO experts at anti-science gro ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 20 2021 - 3:01pm

Louisiana Has Important Things To Worry About, Lawyers Shouldn't Invent A 'Cancer Alley' To Pile On

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the American public fell back in love with science. In the first 19 years of this century, Californians denied vaccines to such an extent a law had to be passed to prevent coastal parents from creating a Whooping Cough pandemi ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 31 2021 - 11:14am

Natural Zinc Sulfides Are Ruining The Mary Rose, But Science Can Fix It

As the crown jewel of Henry VIII’s, its flagship, the Mary Rose, patrolled the Atlantic with her heavy cannons for 34 years. It then spend 437 more buried beneath the turbulent English Channel before being recovered and placed on display at the Mary Rose M ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 17 2021 - 11:45am

Sulfur And Iron Haunt The Ghost Wreck

Analysis of the wood from three 17th century shipwrecks in the Baltic Sea, the Ghost wreck, the Crown and the Sword, showed high concentrations of sulfur and iron using X-ray fluorescence (XRF) scanning. Scientists from the same team have previously repor ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 17 2021 - 2:28pm