My Articles

January 30, 2023 – New Drug Names: A Study in Madness
January 26, 2023 – Why Does Drinking Cause Cancer?
January 24, 2023 – People Worry Hysterically About Low Risk Carcinogens. And Then They Drink
January 18, 2023 – Marijuana and Kids Don't Mix. An Interview with Dr. Roneet Lev
January 17, 2023 – The J-Man Chronicles: In Search of the Elusive Snake Clitoris
January 16, 2023 – Another One Bites The Dust: Fluvoxamine Fails As A Covid Treatment Fails. Badly
January 11, 2023 – 'Paxlovid Rebound' Isn't Real. It Never Was
January 10, 2023 – 4-ANPP: Fentanyl in Waiting
January 5, 2023 – Scoring Some Ambien at the Online Pharmacy From Hell!
December 28, 2022 – Some Opioids Get a Boost From Other Drugs, Some Don't. Here's Why
December 20, 2022 – The Annual Holiday Chemistry Lesson From Hell: How to Tell the Age of a Fruitcake
December 14, 2022 – Washington Post Takes a Swing at Fentanyl, But Fouls It Off
December 9, 2022 – What's the Deal with Hemoglobin A1c? A Glucose-Coated Chemistry Lesson From Hell
December 7, 2022 – Alabama's Incompetent and Barbaric Death Penalty 'Protocol'
December 5, 2022 – An Interview with Steve, My Roomba
December 1, 2022 – No, You Should Not Lick Frogs: A Hallucinogenic Chemistry Lesson
November 25, 2022 – What is the *Real* Shelf Life of Prescription Opioids?
November 23, 2022 – We May Have a Fentanyl Vaccine. But Will it Be Useful?
November 17, 2022 – Smart Water for Dumb Consumers
November 10, 2022 – If We *Really* Want to Honor Our Veterans, Let's Control Their Pain
November 8, 2022 – The J-Man Chronicles: Uneven Legs and the Plausibly Accidental Sky Penis
November 6, 2022 – Why Target Opioids When Alcohol is a Much Bigger Problem?
October 31, 2022 – Arnica: A *Real* Sugar Pill. But it Won't Make Your Car Go Further
October 27, 2022 – The J-Man Chronicles: Dude Wipes and the Demise of Diet Soda
October 21, 2022 – The Van Gogh Soup Protestors Picked The Wrong Food
October 19, 2022 – Finally - An Honest Portrayal Of Opioid Overdose Deaths
October 14, 2022 – The Case of the 'Killer' Wedding Rings
October 12, 2022 – Tranq: A Monster Worse Than Fentanyl?
October 5, 2022 – Breakthrough in Understanding Metastasis: Healthy Cells Do It, Too
October 3, 2022 – Tumors Have a 'Fungal Biome' - Implications for Powerful New Cancer Screens
September 29, 2022 – 'Mercury' vs. Digital Thermometers: Some Metallurgy and a Rant
September 28, 2022 – Cannabis Chemical Myrcene Can Help You Sleep, Clean Paint Brushes, and Run Your Truck
September 23, 2022 – (I Got) The Paxlovid Blues
September 21, 2022 – It's Time to Undo the Harm the CDC Has Done to Pain Patients - Drs. Singer and Bloom in Newsweek
September 16, 2022 – The Devil You Know - Neurontin's Massive Flop as an Opioid Alternative
September 15, 2022 – Why Did Dr. Lynn Webster Trash 'Dopesick?' An Interview.
September 9, 2022 – Tattoos Can Theoretically Cause Cancer - So Can Removing Them
September 6, 2022 – Do Statins Really Give You Muscle Cramps? Rarely
September 1, 2022 – Why Are Clouds Seeded with 'Silver'? Does it Work?
August 29, 2022 – Which Tootsie Pop Flavor is the Most 'Natural'?
August 24, 2022 – Eleventh Hour Veto Prevents Californians from Trying a New Solution to a Big Problem
August 24, 2022 – A 'Mild' Way to Destroy PFAS (Forever Chemicals). But Is It Practical?
August 22, 2022 – 'Tylenol Lite' - Will a Safer New Useless Painkiller Replace a Dangerous Old One?
August 16, 2022 – What Makes Omicron Special? Centaurus Gives Us a Clue
August 11, 2022 – The Truth (Or Lack Thereof) About Melatonin
August 9, 2022 – New Study Obliterates PROP's Absurd Position on Further Reducing Opioid Prescriptions
August 3, 2022 – Metallurgical Irony: Tin Foil Hats Want You to Avoid Using Aluminum
August 3, 2022 – After Biden’s COVID-19 Infections, Here’s What Regulators Should Do to Limit Paxlovid Rebound
July 29, 2022 – Does Fentanyl Penetrate Skin? A Long Overdue Dreaded Chemistry Lesson From Hell
July 27, 2022 – China Claims an AIDS Drug Will Beat Covid. Too Good to Be True?