Chemistry

The Science Of Beer Foam

I'm not much of a drinker, never have been. I have always assumed it was because I did competitive athletics until I was about 25, which means I was outside the age where you 'learn' to like the taste of alcohol, so I never picked it up. Old ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 3 2024 - 9:55am

Weekend Science: Create A Kid Nucleation Experiment In Your Driveway

Nothing says fun to a kid like talking about carbon dioxide and nucleation sites and surfactants. Actually, that sounds really, really boring. But if you instead tell them you are going to cause a giant geyser of soda to erupt in the driveway, they will ge ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 4 2024 - 10:15am

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