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...
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...
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?...
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 Schwarcz will be presenting a talk on Alternative Medicine at St. George's University in Granada/ossCategory: Public lectures and conferences
Public outreach
Faculty of Science
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...
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 ...
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