My Articles
April 26, 2024 –
Facebook's Dr. Feelgood & His Magical Sleep Potions
April 16, 2024 –
Can Poisoned Hand Sanitizer Be Explained By a Moonshine Lesson?
April 15, 2024 –
CNN's Toxic Take on the Danger of Methylene Chloride in Decaf Coffee
April 10, 2024 –
CBD Flops Big Time For Pain
April 8, 2024 –
It's April 8th ... Let's Celebrate Dog Farting Awareness Day!
April 2, 2024 –
Japanese Dietary Supplement Kills Kidneys (and Their Owners)
March 29, 2024 –
Xolair: An Asthma Drug Also Controls Food Allergies
March 21, 2024 –
Pop-Tarts Inventor Bill Post, Is Toast
March 20, 2024 –
Naloxone and Naltrexone: Virtually Identical But Very Different
March 14, 2024 –
For (Key Lime) Pi Day: The World's Best Recipe
March 8, 2024 –
General Tso's Chicken: History, Evolution, Biology, and Chemistry. All on One Plate!
March 1, 2024 –
Absence of a Plant-Based Carburetor is Deeply Disturbing
February 27, 2024 –
The Environmental Working Group Recycles Old Tricks: Now it's a 'New' Pesticide
February 23, 2024 –
Death Without Pain: An Interview With Laurie Engel
February 15, 2024 –
Is Music in a Minor Key Inherently Sad? A Chemist-Pianist Weighs In.
February 13, 2024 –
The Things We Do For Love: The Atomic Penile Pump From Hell
February 7, 2024 –
Why Is Your Underwear Yellow in Front and Brown in the Back: A Chemistry Lesson From the Bowels of Hell
January 31, 2024 –
Does Vertex's Novel Pain Drug VX-548 Really Work? As Clear As Mud.
January 23, 2024 –
These New Synthetic Opioids Could Make the Fentanyl Crisis Look like ‘The Good Old Days’
January 11, 2024 –
More Pharma Sleaze Involving GSK. Again. Welcome to Voltarengate.
January 9, 2024 –
Playing Gummy Roulette
January 4, 2024 –
CBD Oil For Dental Pain? Maybe
December 28, 2023 –
Tylenol Plus Advil Combo: Innovation or Exploitation?
December 26, 2023 –
Josh Bloom – My Favorite Things in 2023
December 20, 2023 –
Penile Fractures: A Christmas Carol
December 20, 2023 –
DEA Chasing Its Tail Again: This Time, It's 'Synthetic Cannabinoids'
December 10, 2023 –
More Opioid Idiocy: The '100 Day Cough' and a Date With the Firing Squad
December 5, 2023 –
Sickle Cell Anemia: Bad Luck and Simple Chemistry
December 1, 2023 –
Biden-Xi Meeting: Can Fentanyl Be Curtailed by Banning Precursor Chemicals?
November 30, 2023 –
10 Years Ago Today: My First Publication as a Pain Patient Advocate in the New York Post
November 29, 2023 –
Big Bidet Aims to Wipe Out Charmin
November 20, 2023 –
Supplement Schadenfreude: FDA Hammers 'Balance of Nature'
November 20, 2023 –
Urban Myth Busted In Time For Thanksgiving: Turkey Does Not Make You Sleepy
November 17, 2023 –
'Smart Drops' for Dumb Consumers
November 14, 2023 –
'Pink' AKA U47700: Another Ingredient in the 'Kolodny Kocktail'
November 7, 2023 –
Thanksgiving Silly Scares: Don't Eat, Drink, or Drive
November 1, 2023 –
Scientists Were Wrong For 5+ Decades About How Certain Cancer Drugs Work. Here's Why It Matters.
October 29, 2023 –
If You're a *Poison Expert* it Is Unwise to Poison Your Wife. A Colchicine Lesson.
October 24, 2023 –
Garlic Breath? Mouthwash Won't Work. Here's Why
October 24, 2023 –
Toxic Drug Completely Wipes Out Testicular Cancer. Here's Why.