A discussion around ice cream reveals that Jonathan may have fallen into the Twilight Zone. Comedian Jacob Meza goes to ComicCon to talk diet pills
Blog – What is the difference between ginger ale and ginger beer?
Ginger ale and ginger beer used to involve tiny living microbes, but they are rather similar soft drinks today. https://mcgill.ca/oss/article/nutrition-you-asked/what-difference-between-ginger-ale-and-ginger-beer
Blog – The Moral Panic Over Smartphones Takes on Satanic Overtones
A tiny bony outgrowth at the base of the skull got reported as horns growing on the head of smartphone users, but the flawed study
Media Appearance – Business Insider
Instagram is recommending that new users in the US follow a ‘healer’ that peddles dangerous medical misinformation. https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-recommends-new-us-users-follow-dr-sebi-account-2019-6
Podcast – Special: Talking Science in the Age of Fake News
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the McGill Office for Science and Society, a university-backed office dedicated to separating sense from nonsense, Jonathan moderated a
Blog – They Say It’s Genetic But My Parents Don’t Have It
How genetic conditions are inherited is not always as simple as “I have it therefore so will my kids”. Thinking of it as furniture assembly
