At the turn of the millennium a Japanese poll asked about the best Japanese invention of the previous century. Instant noodles was the answer. Japan as well as China have a long history of eating...
Pop this pill and improve your memory. Swallow that one and reduce your cognitive decline. We see ads for such products all the time and I suspect they will increase as the baby boomers reach...
In the past聽we heard in the news about a shocking admission from the execs at the National Football League in the USA that they may finally admit to believing that there is a link between football...
鈥淚t鈥檚 natural medicine.鈥� 鈥淗erbal remedies.鈥� 鈥淚t鈥檚 like鈥cupuncture.鈥� 鈥淣o chemicals.鈥� 鈥淓nergy healing.鈥� 鈥淵ogurt.鈥� Such were the common responses when we asked random people, including physicians,...
Sometimes beliefs are converted into fact just by repetition. We constantly hear of people who want to avoid monosodium glutamate because of a fear of being struck by 鈥淐hinese Restaurant Syndrome鈥�...
Next time you think of welcoming someone home by tying a yellow ribbon around an old oak tree, you might want to think again. According to a widely circulating report the yellow dye could leave a...
You never know what you will come across when surfing TV channels late at night, hoping against hope that you will come across a Seinfeld episode you haven鈥檛 seen a hundred times. Last night I was...
How can anyone trained as a pharmacist, with courses in chemistry, biology, and physiology believe that ghostly impressions of molecules imprinted onto sugar can cure disease? Michelle Boisvert, a...
This is a tale of two bracelets. One brandishes flagrant nonsense, the other flirts with some clever science. We begin with a perplexing question I was asked while wandering through a mall in...
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