I keep teasing my analytical chemist colleagues that they are responsible for the anxiety that so many people have about chemicals invading their lives. Hardly a day goes by without some report of...
I don鈥檛 think Einstein had chemical anxiety or the amount of chemicals in our urine in mind when he famously stated that 鈥渘ot everything that counts can be measured and not everything that can be...
Bisphenol A (BPA) first hit the headlines in 2008 when Canada banned polycarbonate baby bottles because of possible leaching of the chemical from the plastic into the contents. Concern had been...
It always pays to read the study! It really does, because popular accounts often misinterpret what researchers actually found and end up raising undue alarm. Of course it is raising the red flag of...
Sometimes you can evaluate a person鈥檚 scientific acumen by a single comment they utter. This is the case with Catherine Sugrue who labels herself a 鈥渉olistic nutritionist rockstar.鈥� Of course...
Because I take the odd shot at Dr. Oz (he is after all such an inviting target) people send me reports of some of his antics. Apparently he, or one of his guests, muttered something about using...
"I hate plastics. We should get rid of them.鈥� So began an email I received. The correspondent went on to talk about how plastics are a plague on the environment, how they contain chemicals that...
During the 1930s, Swiss chemist Pierre Castan was researching materials for denture repair and American Sylvan Greenlee was working on novel paints. Independently, the two hit upon epoxy resins,...
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