Since the late 1940s, so-called 鈥渟ubtherapeutic鈥� doses of antibiotics have been routinely added to animal feed to prevent disease and to increase feed efficiency.聽 Exactly why animals put on weight...
Solvents! What do you think of? Nail polish remover? Dry cleaning fluid? Yes, those are solvents. But there鈥檚 a lot more to the story. Chemistry would not be possible without the use solvents. Most...
Judging by the hate mail directed his way, you would think that Dr. Alan Dangour had suggested banning baby kissing. In fact, all the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine nutritionist did...
When it comes to health matters, scientists rarely make statements that do not begin with 鈥渕ay.鈥澛� But here is one.聽 Excessive exposure to sunlight causes skin cancer!聽 There鈥檚 no 鈥渕ay鈥� about it.聽...
In a paper published in this week鈥檚 issue of Science, astronomers from the Max Planck institute, the University of Cologne (Germany) and Cornell University (USA), announced to聽have for the first...
If you watched the news, read newspapers or surfed the web recently you will have been inundated with pictures of bacon and headlines describing it as carcinogenic. That鈥檚 because the International...
I have never really been hungry. Sure, I鈥檝e had occasions when I could hardly wait to wolf down a slice of pizza or a serving of veggie goulash and I鈥檒l admit to looking forward eagerly to the end...
There are many environmental groups that raise legitimate and thoughtful questions about chemical issue. The Environmental Working Group is not one of them. This organization is dedicated to...
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