Chemistry

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 2020 - 11:16am

Cholestyramine Taken With Daptomycin Prevents Antimicrobial Resistance

Antibiotic resistance is a serious problem. Nature constantly evolves new ways to kill, which means pathogens will develop new methods of resistance to current treatments, but pharmaceutical companies also have little incentive to develop new antibiotics. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 1 2020 - 4:42pm

The Biden Administration Should Eliminate EPA's Strange New Unscientific Approach To Pesticide Evaluations

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 regarding a common herbicide (the second most popular in the ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 16 2021 - 2:18pm

Just A Dud? Swan Book ‘Count Down’ Alleging Apocalyptic Threat Of Extinction Due To Chemicals Greatly Disappoints

“A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.” ― Karl Popper 1 ...

Article - Gregory Bond - Mar 19 2021 - 9:47am

A Day Without Antimicrobials

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 Germs,” but it’s likely that you didn’t give it too muc ...

Article - Komal K. Jain - Mar 30 2021 - 6:01am

Spent Grain From Beer Making As Human Food

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 think about waste. Spent grain, the malt and adjuncts lef ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 6 2021 - 2:17pm

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