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The Demonization of Dietary Oxalate Has Begun

6 Jan 2023

You could call it The One True Cause of All Diseases Club. Admission is based on whether or not you have a mustache and are willing to twirl it a lot. A volcano lair and a love for petting white...

This Pulp Isn't Fiction

4 Jan 2023

I've often watched people do battle with the albedo, trying meticulously to remove every last vestige before popping a segment of "naked" orange into their mouth. Probably the same people who...

Why the Gospel of Wellness Sells

30 Dec 2022

Running on a treadmill is an appealing analogy for both the search for wellness and the investigation of its claims. A lot of effort goes into it, yet we never seem to get anywhere. At least with...

Yes, having high cholesterol does matter

16 Dec 2022

This article was originally posted in the聽Montreal Gazette.

Look But Don鈥檛 Lick

7 Dec 2022

We are used to getting warnings. The bisphenol A in canned foods will do you in. So will artificial sweeteners. Sugar too. Those yoga pants you wear? They may be rubbing those nasty perfluoroalkyl...

Fiber Follies

23 Nov 2022

The scary headline scooted around the internet. 鈥淒iets high in Processed Fiber May Increase Risk of Liver Cancer in Some People.鈥 Unsurprisingly, this prompted lots of questions, including one from...

Red Licorice, Beets and Piss Prophets

9 Nov 2022

It sure is a colorful life. I recall vividly a scary episode almost forty-five years ago when my wife came running to me brandishing our infant daughter's diaper in her hands. It looked pretty...

Osteopathy Needs Science to Lend a Hand

14 Oct 2022

Every year, I鈥檓 an invited lecturer at the University of Ottawa to talk to future science communicators about pseudoscience. I use a number of increasingly muddied examples to show these students...

This Sticky Pain Patch鈥檚 Science Hits a Sticky Patch

23 Sep 2022

鈥淭ake a few steps just to make the Devil mad! Hallelujah! That鈥檚 it, just move around a little bit, there she goes!鈥 Those were the words used by televangelist and soon-to-be-exposed-as-a-fraud...

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