Chemicals & Chemistry

The chemophobia-for-profit crowd has a very good trick up its sleeve and it is played constantly. Because it works. Let's say that the NRDC and its sycophants decide that Chemical A is all of a sudden dangerous.

Count vodka maker Smirnoff among the latest companies to jump aboard the anti-science bandwagon.

The common weed killer Roundup (glyphosate) is back in the news after a

A new drug test can detect four classes of drugs in traces of sweat found in a fingerprint, from both the living and deceased.

In their endeavor to appeal to Millennials and other young people, companies are engaging in marketing campaigns that look and sound good but actually accomplish nothing.

Glyphosate, presently the world's most hated chemical, has been blamed for just about every ailment in humans and animals.

It is difficult to blame Americans for being unable to determine what constitutes a real risk and a theoretical one. Or serious risk from a trivial one.

Microbiologists and toxicologists are quite familiar with the Ames test. It is literally textbook science that is taught to students all over the world.

Now and then I write about some of the atrocities that I used to work with (or avoid) (See Butyllithium — Something You Really Don't Want To Me

If any of you are still alive out there here's another scare for you to not worry about.  Only, it's the same tired scare that you've seen hundreds of times - chemicals in food containers, and it's just as wrong now as it was 25 years ag