Chemistry

EPA To Ban Half Of Methylene Chloride Uses In 15 Months

In 2016, The Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act amended the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and created a mandatory requirement for EPA to evaluate existing chemicals using transparent methodology and risk-based assessment. No ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 20 2023 - 6:33pm

Weekend Science: The Chemistry Of Pairing Food And Beer

After spending thousands of years converging on the perfect beers, this century culture went crazy and overdid hops, tinkered with grains, and generally made niche beers at high cost. Yet there is no question craft beers are big business, a growing segment ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 29 2023 - 5:04am

NRR May Finally Put Haber-Bosch On The Back Burner

Most of the world relies on a 113-year-old chemical reaction used every day. It is the Haber (or Haber-Bosch) process and while its contribution to energy usage and emissions is negligible compared to its benefits, the private sector is always looking for ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 30 2023 - 5:03am

The Activist War On PFAS: Anti-Science Populism Or Should You Be Worried?

A new case study sounds the alarm that per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are detectable in Greenland and the Faroe Islands. The authors say the levels are alarmingly high. What does that mean? No studies have shown health issues related to PFAS ye ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 12 2023 - 2:19pm

Weekend Science: In Vitro Tests Show Espresso Prevents Alzheimer’s Protein Clumping

Espresso is a coffee extraction process where hot water is forced through finely ground coffee at a barometric pressure of nine- which means nine times the usual pressure you feel at sea level, which translates to about 130 pounds per square inch, about 40 ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 19 2023 - 4:22pm

New Antibiotics Aren't A Science Problem, They're A Regulatory One

The world is in a tough spot with antibiotics. Because they came into use in 1928, to the public they seem like they should all be generic and cost a dollar.  Yet due to expensive new regulations passed this century pharmaceutical companies don't have ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 26 2023 - 6:01am

'Scoping' Is Why The IARC Controversy Will Never Go Away- And That French Group Needs Replaced

The International Agency for Research on Cancer(IARC) was once so heralded in a field so rigorous and methodologically conservative that epidemiologists were last to accept a hereditary aspect of cancer. That's right, they didn't see enough evide ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 6 2023 - 11:57am

Endocrine Disruption Is Homeopathy For Coastal Elites

Paracelsus famously noted Sola dosis facit venenum- "Only the dose makes the poison." ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 11 2023 - 4:10pm

Epidemiology Bogus Attacks: Now Diet Coke Causes Autism?

If you have been in science media for any period of time, you have seen a predictable pattern; epidemiologists look through columns and rows of foods people claim they eat and diseases or lack thereof and if they get enough to declare "statistical sig ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 26 2023 - 8:35pm

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 27 2023 - 3:50pm