On the health front, there's some excellent news! At the Burning Man Orgy Dome, volunteers will be handing out baby wipes.

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Peer review in reputable journals gives scientific claims an authority that commercial speech rarely enjoys. But what happens ...

Protein has become nutrition’s magic word, stamped on everything from pasta to Pop-Tarts as shorthand for “healthy.” But most ...

A recent study linking sugary drinks to stomach cancer smelled fishy. It was. More so than we thought. The bigger problem is ...

From an old pesticide scare getting an official platform to a trendy sleep supplement that fails basic chemistry, ACSH staff ...

Food madness continues unabated. A new study (barely) implicates nitrite and colorectal cancer. But thousands of nitrate ...