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The History of Clinical Trials

15 Mar 2024

Today when a new medication is introduced, we expect it to be backed by evidence gleaned from proper research. Our gold standard is the randomized double-blind controlled trial, but surprisingly...

Statues That Perform Miracles

13 Mar 2024

It was a miracle! Or at least seemed to be one. The date: September 20, 1985. The place: A Hindu temple, New Delhi, India. Traffic around the temple snarled as the curious rushed to witness a...

Does Daylight Savings Time Actually Save Energy?

8 Mar 2024

The surefire signs that Spring is just around the corner have started to appear – trees are budding, flowers beginning to bloom and there’s more rain than snow. (Full disclosure – I live in the UK...

It’s A Chemical World!

6 Mar 2024

It’s a chemical world out there! We are awash in some fifty million known chemicals, the majority of which are created by nature, a minority by chemists. They’re not good or bad, not safe or...

Nothing Memorable About Memory Supplements

16 Feb 2024

This article was first published in the Montreal Gazette.

Phenylethylamine is Said To Stoke the Fire of Love. Here Comes the Water Bucket.

14 Feb 2024

American humorist James Thurber reputedly once remarked that “love is a strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person.” Anyone who has ever been in love will agree....

From the Jungle to the Operating Room

9 Feb 2024

This article was first published in the Montreal Gazette....

Seaweed, Chernobyl and the World’s First Functional Food

31 Jan 2024

Back in the early 1800s the production of potassium nitrate (saltpeter), an essential component of gunpowder, was a booming industry.

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