Science, Health, and Food Blog

I've been collecting data on inflammatory diseases going back to the 1980s. The rise in many inflammatory disease is highly correlated w...

This blog isn't just about being healthy it's also a bit about being frugal, budgeting, and sustainability. Along that line here a...

The FBI hacked the Mozilla browser, and the Mozilla Foundation entered a brief in court ( PDF here ) asking them to disclose how they did it...

A US Army study found a yarrow tincture repelled mosquitoes better than DEET. There is some question about how toxic DEET is as the skin abs...

The 12 most common toxins in cosmetics, soaps, creams, shampoos, etc. EDC = endocrine disrupting chemical MSDS = a sheet summarizing any ...

Summary North Dakota: fracking spills poison local streams with heavy metals, radioactive materials and toxic, corrosive salts. There ar...

And they may contain fatal allergens. Some pills, capsules might not contain the dose they claim, or any of the active ingredient, and they ...

Quote: Women across America are furious with the FDA [and Bayer], and nowhere is this sentiment louder than on Twitter, where patients a...

Employees at Tyson plants have unpleasant working conditions to begin with, now add abuse to the list of problems, abuse which violates wor...

A survey of 215 cosmetic products in 1995 found parabens in 99% of the leave-on cosmetic products and 77% of the rinse-off products (Rasto...