Things you can call bullshit on, according to science

Regardless of what memes pop up in your timeline or what it says in the emails your mom sends, the following things are true according to science: Chemical-free isn’t a real thing, everything is made of chemicals Chemtrails are just water vapour  Chiropractors are not doctors Climate change is real and caused by humans Conspiracy…

Please stop anthropomorphizing nature

Nature is not a person, or a being, or a conscious entity of any kind. I point this out because apparently it needs to be pointed out. Barely a day goes by when someone doesn’t describe nature to me as if it was a living, breathing creature capable of making decisions and having opinions. Even…

For most people there is no reason to go gluten free.

As a child of the 70s I grew up in an era of fad diets and bad science. There has been since, at least, the 1960s a conspiracy mentality in certain circles: There was a sense that big pharma, big agriculture, big chemical, science, medicine and government generally were ‘killing us’ or making us less…