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The China Study

13 Aug 2025

In 2005, Colin Campbell, now Professor Emeritus at Cornell University, authored “The China Study.” The book became a best seller with its claim that the road to good health meanders through fields...

Supermodel Heidi Klum Floats In Air and Blows Hot Air

6 Aug 2025

Let’s start with the floating illusion. I would hope that if anyone sees a person suspended in mid-air, they realize that the law of gravitation has not been suspended and that some mechanism...

Meet the New Rogan. Same as the Old Rogan.

31 Jul 2025

It looks as if masculinity itself has exploded into the room.

A Peashooter Will Not Bring Down a Charging Rhino

25 Jul 2025

This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette. “A gesture as effective as sending out a boy with a peashooter to bring down a rhinoceros.”

Ultrasound During Pregnancy: Sound Advice or Sound the Alarm?

25 Jul 2025

Let’s be honest—pregnancy is basically a nine-month exercise in overthinking. Is that sushi safe? Should I be sleeping on my left side? And what, exactly, is in prenatal vitamins anyway? Somewhere...

Shedding a light on shedding: The Science of Telogen Effluvium

25 Jul 2025

It started with a few extra hairs: in my brush, on my bathroom floor, strewn across my pillow. Odd, but nothing too alarming, women shed hair all the time. But then there were more. They were...

Ozempic-Induced Blindness? A Measured Response

24 Jul 2025

In certain corners of the Internet, the discourse over Ozempic is terrifying. “But the FDA says that [sic] inject Gila Monster venom weekly into yourself is healthy,” one commentator sarcastically...

Science Shows Carnivore Diet Is Best Left to Lions

18 Jul 2025

This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette. Jenny McCarthy, a former Playboy Playmate of the Year, is playing with science again. This time it is all about the “carnivore diet.”

Shedding Light on UV Blood Irradiation

17 Jul 2025

Would you allow someone to draw your blood out, expose it to ultraviolet light, and pump it back into your body, even if I told you it wouldn’t turn you into the Incredible Hulk?

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