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COVID and More: Conversations with the McGill Office for Science and Society

Thursday, June 11, 2020 17:00to18:00

This week, the OSS is speaking with Fred Morin, co-owner of Joe Beef, McKiernan, Liverpool House, & Le Vin Papillon, along with Joel Tietolman, owner of the Mile End Deli in New York City, to...

Trottier Symposium: LONGING FOR LONGEVITY

Tuesday, October 22, 2019 13:30toWednesday, October 23, 2019 21:00

The 2019 Trottier Public Science Symposium: "Longing for Longevity"...

The Food Babe Decoded

Published: 15 March 2015

Vani Hari, who goes by the alias “The Food Babe” has become a real social phenomenon. She blogs, appears on TV and has just come out with a book that quickly made it to the New York Times best...

Is Your Makeup Killing You? Decoding Cosmetic Scare Stories

Published: 18 March 2014

You’ve seen the stories: There’s Lead in Your Lipstick! Pthalates in Your Shampoo! Parabens in Everything!   Our cosmetics are awash in toxic chemicals, or so it seems. Are we in imminent danger?...

More Oz Folly

Published: 27 January 2014

Dr. Oz has absolutely gone haywire. In pushing the "alkaline" diet he takes a piece of kidney and pours acid on it to show how it disintegrates and infers this is happening in the body. This is...

Dr. Joe comments on Dr. Oz

Published: 26 January 2014

The wizardry of Dr. Oz The surgeon and TV celebrity has succeeded in winning fans and influencing public health debates - which troubles some experts. Mehmet Oz's followers believe he is a...

Online course offers Food for Thought on ever-changing information

Published: 17 January 2014

What is it like to teach a class of more than 20,000 students? I don’t know, but I’m about to find out. Colleagues David Harpp and Ariel Fenster and I have been selected to offer McGill’s first ...

CTV Montreal: Dr. Joe Schwarcz on the dangers of E.coli

Published: 16 January 2014

Many strains of E.coli are necessary for human digestion, but O157:H7 can be deadly.   To view the video, click here 

Food-Is There a Solution to the Confusion?

Friday, January 17, 2014 09:00

Dr. Joe Schwarcz presents: " Food-Is There a Solution to the Confusion?"  Laurier High School, CA/ossCategory: Public outreach Public lectures Faculty of Science

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