During a public lecture on genetic modification I described an experiment that involved enriching soybeans with the amino acid methionine. Soybeans are widely used to raise animals but are low in...
Here is the question that came our way: 鈥淚s Physioscan the latest hype or just old news in Naturopathy?鈥� I had never heard of PhysioScan so I looked into it. At first I thought it was a joke....
Magical Mystery Cures" with Bob McDonald on "Doc Zone," the excellent CBC program looked at the 'anti-aging" industry. We were treated to a spectacular array of quacks outdoing each other with...
You鈥檝e got to love the plot. A meteorite falls to earth and begins to ooze a revolting goo that dines on humans. It makes its way into a movie theatre, and in a classic scene, surges from the...
Several people have sent me this video of a Harvard student "inventing" a 3-D printer that cranks out cosmetics at home. She starts out by telling us that the cosmetics industry, a $55 billion...
On the 鈥淭he Current,鈥� the CBC鈥檚 national morning show, Dr. Heather Boon, Dean of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto, and I had a chance to express our views on the proposed study she is...
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...
I was asked by a salesman for the "Magnesphere" Company to take a look at their magnetic system that is supposed to treat various conditions. The people who hosted me made no claims other than that...
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