The Brain Microplastics Claim and the Collapse of Scientific Restraint

…the episode will stand as another example of how easily scientific restraint is abandoned when a frightening story is available for the telling.

Friday Funny – science safety run amok

I learned how to make and use gunpowder in the fifth grade thanks to my home chemistry set. KNO3 + S + C = boom! I happily and safely (I…

Is Global Warming Starving Science?

Posted by Dee Norris This article concerning the Nobel Prize for Chemistry caught my attention this morning: Twenty years ago, Douglas Prasher was one of the driving forces behind research…