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The Uncertainty of What Happened When Heisenberg Met Bohr

19 Jan 2024

It isn’t often that the subject matter of a play on Broadway is science. “Copenhagen” opened on Broadway in 2000 after a run in London’s West End. Its focus was a 1941 meeting in Bohr’s Copenhagen...

Is bottled water bad for your health?

19 Jan 2024

This article was originally posted in the Montreal Gazette....

Don’t Blame Teething for Most Infant Illnesses

12 Jan 2024

This article was first published in The Skeptical Inquirer....

Homeopathy is scientifically implausible

12 Jan 2024

This article was first published in the Montreal Gazette.

What a Journal Impact Factor Is and Isn’t

5 Jan 2024

You may have heard of the impact factor. It is a number given to an academic journal (think Nature or The New England Journal of Medicine) which is often erroneously used a proxy for how good the...

Vampire facials' body of evidence is anemic

5 Jan 2024

This article was originally posted in the Montreal Gazette.

Skeletons in the Closet

3 Jan 2024

Dr. David Franklin’s conscience was bothering him. At first, the job he had secured in 1996 with Parke-Davis, a division of the Warner-Lambert pharmaceutical company, seemed ideal. Armed with a PhD...

Placebos are harmless, right? Not always

22 Dec 2023

This article was originally posted in the Montreal Gazette....

What is next in the evolution of GLP-1-based therapies for diabetes and obesity?

15 Dec 2023

The first glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1)-based therapeutic was approved by Health Canada in 2011 for the treatment of hyperglycemia in patients with Type 2 diabetes. Little was it suspected at...

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