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How Nature Solved the Problem of Too Much DNA

16 Jun 2022

When you consider how babies are made, you bump up against a basic math problem. No need for calculus here, or even the mental gymnastics of carrying the one. Its a problem of doubling.

The Problems with Adaptogens

9 Jun 2022

Mark my words: long COVID will be a magnet for quacks.

Steve Kirsch and the Seduction of Simplicity

20 May 2022

A central lesson we scientists learn in university is that science is complicated. Experiments that should yield either result A or B show us C, instead. Individual studies are flawed, and our...

Resetting the Hype Around the Vagus Nerve

13 May 2022

Murkiness and wishful thinking about an emerging scientific subject can be spun into certainty. Where researchers are exploring the tenebrous depths of our nervous system with the equivalent of a...

Doing Your Own Research a Little Bit Better

14 Apr 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic helped popularize a hair-raising phrase: do your own research. Portrayed as a call for self-empowerment, it became the tell-tale sign of someone who didnt trust public...

Puppies Can Help Explain How Scientists Get Things Wrong

1 Apr 2022

If you have an interest in scientific research, you may have heard a weird term that sounds traumatizing from a urological perspective: p-hacking. Apparently, youve read, some scientists use p...

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: Answering Criticism

31 Mar 2022

Last September, we published an article I wrote on multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), specifically on a French-language report commissioned by the Government of Quebec to understand the state of...

Do We Really Need to Stretch?

25 Mar 2022

People do not like their stretches to be criticized, wrote Paul Ingraham, a former massage therapist and current science journalist. Im about to find out for myself.

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