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The Vitamin D Puzzle

24 Jan 2024

Walk into any pharmacy or health food store and you will see shelves filled with vitamin D supplements. Then stroll over to a bookstore and you will find all sort of books touting the wonders of...

The Uncertainty of What Happened When Heisenberg Met Bohr

19 Jan 2024

It isn鈥檛 often that the subject matter of a play on Broadway is science. 鈥淐openhagen鈥 opened on Broadway in 2000 after a run in London鈥檚 West End. Its focus was a 1941 meeting in Bohr鈥檚 Copenhagen...

Is bottled water bad for your health?

19 Jan 2024

This article was originally posted in the Montreal Gazette....

Homeopathy is scientifically implausible

12 Jan 2024

This article was first published in the Montreal Gazette.

Don鈥檛 Blame Teething for Most Infant Illnesses

12 Jan 2024

This article was first published in The Skeptical Inquirer....

What a Journal Impact Factor Is and Isn鈥檛

5 Jan 2024

You may have heard of the impact factor. It is a number given to an academic journal (think Nature or The New England Journal of Medicine) which is often erroneously used a proxy for how good the...

Vampire facials' body of evidence is anemic

5 Jan 2024

This article was originally posted in the Montreal Gazette.

Skeletons in the Closet

3 Jan 2024

Dr. David Franklin鈥檚 conscience was bothering him. At first, the job he had secured in 1996 with Parke-Davis, a division of the Warner-Lambert pharmaceutical company, seemed ideal. Armed with a PhD...

Placebos are harmless, right? Not always

22 Dec 2023

This article was originally posted in the Montreal Gazette....

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