food additives

So, according to Derek Lowe in today's In the Pipeline blog, food writers of a certain level of incompetence are taking on Taco Bell again for using ingredients they can't spell and do not know what they do. Ignorance and scare tactics gaining more readers than accurate information...

Derek has updated the original article to demo Buzzfeeds responce (they removed all the site listings to items that turned out not in their favor/showed they were wrong/lied as the case may be). He also adds a new shorter blog on the general topic of additives/food safety and is planning some...

Writing this here, as there it has sparked out of the Skeptoid threads where there is a limitation of space, but it is a subject that highlights some interesting points on how science is viewed, or at least assumed. Now what I am not going to comment on is the ethical issue of battery farming...

A quote from Gary Mannion, "Indigo Child" and all-round New Age crackpot: "I am finding a lot with working with kids that although they may not of had addatives before their problems started their parents have had addatives and this has passed on in dna..." Is there are truth behind this? An...