Do you know who invented the electric toaster? If you answered Alan MacMasters, a young Scotsman with high cheekbones and quite a head of hair, you鈥檝e been lied to by Wikipedia.
鈥淏ut where鈥檚 the harm?鈥 we are so often asked. When your baby dies and has to be resuscitated in the emergency room, I鈥檇 say the harm has a Vegas-sized neon arrow above it....
There is hardly a week that passes without someone asking my opinion about some video purporting to have found a remedy for some terrible ailment that 鈥淏ig Pharma doesn鈥檛 want you to know about.鈥...
Genghis Khan is more legend than man. We鈥檙e not even sure when he was born: historians agree it鈥檚 somewhere in the decade that spans 1155 and 1167. That birth has itself been mythologized. Stories...
Apparently Snow White's wicked stepmother knew something about chemistry and toxicology. She brewed up a remarkable poison to put the anemic young lady into a state of suspended animation. But how...