Chemistry

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

Your Meat Does Not Bleed- But That People Think It Does Is Important For Plant-Based Substitutes

If you have cooked a steak or a hamburger you know that by the time you are ready to serve it, and certainly after you cut or bite into it, there will be liquid that oozes out of it.  Anti-meat groups know it isn't blood(1) but they use that imagery t ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 29 2023 - 1:35pm

Dating A Vampire Hunter? Here Is How To Get Rid Of That Garlic Breath

Halloween is the time of year when you are most likely to find out your significant other is a vampire- or vampire hunter. Sure, vampires can't be real and never have been, there can't really be hunters for those any more than there are ghost hun ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 30 2023 - 11:23am

Are Trace Chemicals In Shiny Hair Products Killing You?

The dose makes the poison, except in academic epidemiology, where H-Index and citations necessitate writing papers claiming any dose is toxic. This is why EXPLORATORY claims aren't actually science itself. When your only method is to ask people what p ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 29 2023 - 3:30pm

Weekend Science: Coffee And Static Electricity- Is Water The Answer Or A Grinding Mess?

In some homes, it is believed that static electricity can lead to inferior grinding, and that has coffee connoisseurs searching for answers. Will water help, or is it just making a mess because while a little may help, people will use too much?  Coffee is ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 26 2023 - 2:21pm

Did Environmental Working Group Manufacture A Study Just To Sue Quaker Oats?

On February 15th, the litigation outfit known as Environmental Working Group, most famous for using public USDA data (although excluding pesticides from the organic food companies which fund them) to compile a 'Dirty Dozen list' of foods which co ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 21 2024 - 10:34pm