Watch what happens when ACSH organic chemist Dr. Josh Bloom raids a cabinet full of supplements, belonging to none other than Ana Dolaskie’s husband. Some get a pass. A few get absolutely roasted — ...

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Eighteen months ago, I asked whether anti-vaccine rhetoric and a retreat from infectious-disease preparedness might open the ...

Science is supposed to correct its own errors. In practice, distorted academic incentives often block that quality control.

As measles cases surged across the country, federal health officials repeatedly stopped short of offering an unequivocal ...

A fake disease, complete with absurd clues and a fictional laboratory aboard the USS Enterprise, was enough to fool AI chatbots—and even find its way into the scientific literature. The hoax exposes a ...

Allulose looks like sugar to a chemist but behaves rather differently inside the body. The FDA recognized that distinction ...

It's the beginning of October, which means it's time to write about a birthstone. But there's a problem: October has two, which is too much work. Fortunately, my horoscope told me to pick opals rather ...

Shaken Baby Syndrome has increasingly been branded “junk science,” not because the medical consensus has disappeared, but ...

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"Carbon monoxide" and "brain health" aren't terms normally found in the same sentence, at least not in a good way. But a ...

In 1848, two young sisters in upstate New York discovered that mysterious rapping sounds could convince people they were ...