Chemicals & Chemistry

This is a really great day for evidence-based policy, which means it's a really bad day for environmental and anti-GMO activists.

By Michael L. Dourson, Bernard Gadagbui, and Patricia M. McGinnis

The AAAS, which stands for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, is one of the foremost pro-science organizations in the world.

By Dr. Jenifer Heath Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) is a chemical commonly found in household products. Its purpose is to resist stains, grease, and other assaults.

How do you know when a "study" isn't really a study? When the people who performed it wrote up a brochure hyping its results before actually bothering to publish a scientific paper.

Reprinted by permission of McGill University Office for Science and Society. ###

Here are two facts about plastic recycling. Chances are that you know one of them and that you don't know the other. I sure didn't before today. WHAT YOU PROBABLY KNOW

Reprinted by permission of McGill University Office for Science and Society. ###

Reprinted by permission of McGill University Office for Science and Society. ###

In what is almost certainly a Sisyphean task I'm going to try to apply logic to homeopathy. And it's going to be a bit obnoxious. So, all you believers who already hate me better get out your voodoo dolls and pins ready.