Gwyneth Paltrow’s Netflix show is a mixed bag of promising emerging science and complete quackery, of confidence-building exercises and utter lunacy. In erasing the distinction
Category: Writings
Written articles and blog posts
Blog – So You Want to Pop Into a Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber to Rid Yourself of Wrinkles?
Some for-profit clinics claim to have found the Fountain of Youth in a metal tube filled with oxygen, but the evidence is nowhere to be
Blog – Can You Be Drunk Without Drinking?
Rarely, a person will act drunk but will deny drinking alcohol. Yet, a blood test for alcohol shows high levels! There is a scientific explanation
Blog – The Seen and Unseen Consequences of Albinism
The pigment loss seen in albinism has consequences for the skin, but a less visible ramification of the condition is on vision itself. https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/general-science/seen-and-unseen-consequences-albinism
Blog – Do You Know What’s Inside Your Herbal Medicine?
A scientific look at how DNA is used to recognize commercial herbal medicines reveals an alarming problem: we’re not very good at identifying them. https://mcgill.ca/oss/article/health-pseudoscience/do-you-know-whats-inside-your-herbal-medicine
Blog – The Genetic Astrology of Naturopath Ben Lynch
Ben Lynch’s book Dirty Genes uses a naive view of genetics to sell us the usual: toxins bad, supplements good. https://mcgill.ca/oss/article/pseudoscience-reviews/genetic-astrology-naturopath-ben-lynch
