Chemicals & Chemistry

If you're a regular ACSH reader, you've met “Crazy Joe Mercola,” as my colleague Dr. Josh Bloom fondly refers to him.

According to our new (aka working) search box I have written about bisphenol A (BPA), one of the chemicals used to make polycarbonate plastics (1), 113 times.

Pfizer's Paxlovid (1), possibly the drug that will bring down COVID, is not at all easy to synthesize.

ACSH's Holiday Dinner Menu is our most popular publication of all time. And, how could it not be?

Although different chemists may have other opinions, to me, the most important of all chemical bonds is an amide bond. It consists of a nitrogen atom connected to a carbon atom, which is doubly bound to oxygen (Figure 1).

Before jumping in, let’s provide a bit of background.

OK, this is probably not as noteworthy as, say, National Dog Fart Awareness Day (No - I'm not kidding; it's April 8th). But worry not.

Environmental activist groups and trial lawyers have launched a new campaign in their legal effort to restrict access to synthetic pesticides.

There are unquestionably elements that are rarer, stranger, and more exciting than phosphorous.

Every now and then a quack dope misinformed individual needs to be called out.