Chemicals & Chemistry

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) just issued a policy statement about common chemicals found in trace amounts in food, all of which have been in use for at least 50 years.

I'm in New York City and a storm just finished. Though the forecast had only shown a slight chance of rain a few hours earlier, suddenly there were flash flood warnings and the Yankees went ahead and postponed their game.

Do you use plastic bags? Do you drink from plastic straws?

Do-gooders in America, typically of the Millennial variety, think of themselves as smarter, more worldly, and far better informed than you. They are woke. You are not.

Paracelsus famously noted that the dose makes the poison.

The Frank R.

Americans love to sue people.

There is a real mess going on in Southern Florida.

It's not often that I have a whole lot of positive things to say about the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). But there's no denying that they can make an effective scare video.

Two weeks ago, we reported on a bizarre decision by the online news arm of the journal Science: The outlet had reprinted an article