Dr. Mehmet Oz was asked to testify in front of a U.S. Senate Transport, Commerce and Science subcommitte on fraudulent weight loss products. It is a subject he knows a fair bit about. After all he...
Dr. Oz听听didn鈥檛 mince his words when he described the wondrous effects of green coffee bean extract. 鈥淢agical,鈥� 鈥渟taggering,鈥� an 鈥渦nprecedented discovery!鈥� 鈥淔inally, a cure for obesity鈥� he...
During a public lecture on genetic modification I described an experiment that involved enriching soybeans with the amino acid methionine. Soybeans are widely used to raise animals but are low in...
It sounds believable. After all the Japanese do eat some strange things. They eat 鈥渇ugu,鈥� prepared from puffer fish which if not properly eviscerated contains enough tetrodotoxin to kill the diner....
A little pump called the 鈥淔izz Keeper鈥� is available in kitchen supply stores to pressurize previously opened soft drink bottles and prevent loss of carbonation. The idea appears to make sense, but...
You鈥檝e got to love the plot. A meteorite falls to earth and begins to ooze a revolting goo that dines on humans. It makes its way into a movie theatre, and in a classic scene, surges from the...
Several people have sent me this video of a Harvard student "inventing" a 3-D printer that cranks out cosmetics at home. She starts out by telling us that the cosmetics industry, a $55 billion...
On the 鈥淭he Current,鈥� the CBC鈥檚 national morning show, Dr. Heather Boon, Dean of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto, and I had a chance to express our views on the proposed study she is...
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