Jocelyn Kaiser at ScienceInsider has obtained data. On PI numbers from the NIH. It is absolutely essential to any attempts to understand and fix grant application success rates and submission churning.

Thursday, December 28, 2017. Chemistry Bumper Cars, 2018.

Jim Carrey and the long slow death of the antivaccine movement. California governor Jerry Brown recently signed into law a bill that eliminates religious or philosophical exemptions for childhood vaccines. Under the new law, parents may only opt out of vaccinating their child if a doctor signs off on a medical exemption. And that the dose of thimerosal in a vaccine was tiny to begin.

Modeling the preference for peers that you get high with. From Mark Smith and colleagues addresses whether drug exposure can differentially condition a preference for certain peers in a rat model. Smith MA, Strickland JC, Bills SE, Lacy RT. The effects of a shared history of drug exposure on social choice. The choice rats then underwent a total of 10 conditioning sessions in normal home.

Wednesday, January 14, 2015. Before I go off on this rant, let me just say I am an aunt of 15. Any parent that buys a kid of a certain age that would ingest a buckeyball over its an intended use is a bad parent. This recall is brought to you. By pure stupidity evolved from mankind and the legal system. Sunday, January 11, 2015. Ever wondered how your spray tanners work? Links to this post.

If your dietary supplement is advertised to work as well as a pharmaceutical, it may be adulterated with one. Examples include acetildenafil, aildenafil, and thiosildenafil.

A Kentuckian, an Engineer, and a Chemist. On Life and the Turns it Takes. Why? I got caught up in the whirlwind that is a completely new direction. And Why They Have a Terrible Team of Science Writers. On a Publication Finally About Explosives. On the Similarities Between Sucralose and DDT.