Category: Writings

ASMR videos give certain people relaxing tingles. Some scientists want to know why. https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health-technology-general-science/emerging-science-careful-whispers

The “Google search engine of the life sciences” can query over 32 million scientific publications. Not all of them pass the sniff test. https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-health-and-nutrition-general-science/finding-paper-pubmed-does-not-mean-paper-any-good

Joe Mercola is a doctor at war with medicine. His take on the pandemic is a lucrative, conspiratorial fever dream. https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19-health-pseudoscience/upside-down-doctor

When pregnancy or breastfeeding bumps up against COVID-19 vaccines, evidence is lacking but guidance is needed. https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19-health/what-expect-covid-19-vaccine-when-youre-expecting-or-breastfeeding

The world is full of bacteria that are not bacteria. We know they are there not because we can grow them but because we see

When we die, the enzymes and bacteria that were so useful to us digest us from the inside out. https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/general-science/death-our-body-feasts-itself