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Can McDonald鈥檚 Cure Your Migraine? Debunking the Viral McMigraine Trend

15 Aug 2025

For those who consider themselves to be a part of the 鈥淢igraine girlies鈥 community, you may be familiar with the recent McMigraine trend on TikTok鈥檚 #migraine page....

The 鈥楻eading Crisis鈥 in Perspective

14 Aug 2025

Everywhere I turn, I am told there is a reading crisis. Multiple YouTube videos and a never-ending series of articles in Vox and The Atlantic claim that people are reading fewer books than ever...

The China Study

13 Aug 2025

In 2005, Colin Campbell, now Professor Emeritus at Cornell University, authored 鈥淭he China Study.鈥 The book became a best seller with its claim that the聽road to good health meanders through fields...

Supermodel Heidi Klum Floats In Air and Blows Hot Air

6 Aug 2025

Let鈥檚 start with the floating illusion. I would hope that if anyone sees a person suspended in mid-air, they realize that the law of gravitation has not been suspended and that some mechanism...

Meet the New Rogan. Same as the Old Rogan.

31 Jul 2025

It looks as if masculinity itself has exploded into the room.

A Peashooter Will Not Bring Down a Charging Rhino

25 Jul 2025

This article was first published in聽The Montreal Gazette. 鈥淎 gesture as effective as sending out a boy with a peashooter to bring down a rhinoceros.鈥

Ultrasound During Pregnancy: Sound Advice or Sound the Alarm?

25 Jul 2025

Let鈥檚 be honest鈥攑regnancy is basically a nine-month exercise in overthinking. Is that sushi safe? Should I be sleeping on my left side? And what, exactly, is in prenatal vitamins anyway? Somewhere...

Shedding a light on shedding: The Science of Telogen Effluvium

25 Jul 2025

It started with a few extra hairs: in my brush, on my bathroom floor, strewn across my pillow. Odd, but nothing too alarming, women shed hair all the time. But then there were more. They were...

Ozempic-Induced Blindness? A Measured Response

24 Jul 2025

In certain corners of the Internet, the discourse over Ozempic is terrifying. 鈥淏ut the FDA says that [sic] inject Gila Monster venom weekly into yourself is healthy,鈥 one commentator sarcastically...

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