Dr. Joe Schwarcz

I'm not a big fan of TV ads for drugs. They are cloying and sickening, and that's even before you're bombarded by the cyclone of side effects at the end.

The recent Ohio train derailment and subsequent fire that released vinyl chloride into the environment has been a terrifying experience for the nearby population.

Ivermectin is a wonderful drug. So effective that its discovery deserved the 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology awarded to Japanese chemist Satoshi Omura and American parasitologist William Campbell.

ACSH friend, Dr. Joe Schwarcz, who is the director of McGill University's Office for Science and Society

Who knew that polyurethane could be so interesting? "Dr. Joe' Schwarcz, the director of the McGill Office for Science and Society, who can make pretty much anything interesting, does so again.

Parabens are commonly used in foods and cosmetics as preservatives. Back in 2004, Dr.