This article was first published in聽The Montreal Gazette.
There鈥檚 an old riddle that goes, 鈥淲hat does no one want, but no one wants to lose?鈥 Answer: a bald head.
Ryan Armstrong, Executive Director of the non-profit聽Bad Science Watch,聽tells me he never published his first article critical of pseudoscience for fear of a lawsuit. 鈥淢y work also went a bit...
Leopard geckos (Eublepharis macularius) are a popular pet in many countries. They鈥檙e fairly easy to take care of, small, rarely bite, (and when they do it鈥檚 pretty painless) and can live up to 25...
The ads for BioSil look and sound like every other supplement ad. There are bold claims like 鈥減romotes unbreakable nails鈥 (I鈥檓 pretty sure that鈥檚 impossible); references to science like 鈥渕olecular...
Do you ever try to wash a mug only to be confronted by tea stains that just won鈥檛 budge? A little bit of chemistry may be just what you need to get your mugs back to white....
This surprising fact was initially聽discovered聽by聽researchers聽at the Bronx Zoo who compared twenty-three different perfumes鈥 abilities to attract tigers鈥 attention. One of the least successful was...