Pesticides

It's that time of year again. Flowers are beginning to bloom, trees are turning green, the birds are chirping a little louder ... and the Environmental Working Group is scaring you about perfectly safe and healthy food. 

Initial reports suggest that Kim Jong-Nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, was murdered with VX, a type of agent used in chemical warfare. What is it, and how does it work?

Asking hard questions is one of the true delights of being a science journalist. People's assumptions, understanding of the facts, and inherent biases should be subjected to scrutiny.

There has been a long history of ridiculous fearmongering by environmental activists masquerading as health experts.

I have been a long-time reader of Pacific Standard (once called Miller-McCune), a publication that tries to be the West Coast equivalent of The Atlantic.

The language of science has been hijacked.

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It was Monday's "big" health story, or so we were told.

Greenpeace really loves bees so much that they regularly hold bee die ins where they dress up

While organic crops supposedly aren t treated with synthetic pesti