AngryToxicologist is a scientist in the public health sector, knows plenty about toxicology, and is occasionally angry about it all. Drop me a line at tox@angrytoxicologist.com.
Any money I would have gotten from writing this blog is donated to the National Capital Poison Control Center. They rely on grants, save lives, and decrease health care costs. So read this blog every day!
What I'm reading, watching, and rating:
Saw
ReadMiddlesex**** out of 5
SawThe Lives of Others***** out of 5. Best movie I've seen in a long time.
November 9, 2007
Category: Depressing/Infuriating
Elizabeth "never met a toxic chemical I didn't like" Whelan of ACSH fame posted on HuffPo Wed. an interesting little post that ripped the EPA for funding a study to figure out if/what environmental factors among children, over their childhood,...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 7:23 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 7, 2007
Category: Consumer Tox
A couple of weeks ago, as I'm sure you heard, the FDA held an advisory committee meeting that concluded that there should be no use of cough/cold products for children under 6. There is a good amount of evidence that...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 7:20 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 5, 2007
Category: The way things are
After the dust up last week about violent anti-animal testing groups (coast down through the comments on the linked Denialism post to get the short version of my take), two things stuck in my head. One, the Dalai Lama says...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 8:52 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 2, 2007
Category: Ask A Science Blogger
Let's redo the lungs, shall we? They are toxicologist's nightmare. First, let's point out what's great about our airway systems: the filtration provided by our nose, nasopharynx, pharynx and larynx; the clearance of foreign substances by dual layer of...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 10:19 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Non-Science Fridays
There are so many things I could write about today but this is just sitting in my head this morning: There are alot of crazies out there. By that I mean not people who are mentally ill, which deserve compassion,...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 8:17 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Food
As promised yesterday, here's how I make breakfast sausage (I do it for taste but it will also lower your nitrate intake). And as to the old saying, I'd much rather make sausage than make laws. You'll need a meat...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 5:16 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 1, 2007
Category: Media
Or so says USA Today on the front page, paragraph two (regarding sausage, bacon and lunchmeat). Of course they are contradicted on paragraph 8 by someone who says that "you can still occasionally have a hot dog". The no safe...
Posted by angrytoxicologist at 9:42 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
