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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?

Con Artists or True Believers?

10 Jul 2025

You may be the victim of a grift....

Sleep Can Often Be Elusive

9 Jul 2025

Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleave of care, The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, Chief nourisher in life’s feast.

Why It’s Hard to Study What People Eat

4 Jul 2025

This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette.

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