In 1995, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) noticed something amiss. Yuqing Li’s Geiger counter alarm started blaring. The radiation source? Him. But how did he become so radioactive? How did anything hazardous get inside his body? What Happened? Unsolved to this day, the question remains: who attempted to poison Li? Radiation ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) denied approval for 3,4- methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) assisted therapy, and the academic and medical journal Psychopharmacology retracted three papers related to the trial. The FDA denial and Psychopharmacology’s response to ethical concerns cited drug trial participant selection, study design, and data manipulation. For future consideration, the FDA required an additional Phase III trial by Lykos Therapeutics. Background ...

Welcome to Strange Medicine—a series of nonfiction articles based on recent journal published, peer-reviewed case studies, review articles, meta-studies, scientific studies, and primary literature. Each relates to events that made the medical community’s eyes widen and scratch their heads, though, please note that all are significant toward scientific and medical progress because they also forced ...

This week I learned about the importance of checking everyone on the ballot, and not just the candidates you hear about on the news. This year has been a difficult one for the world in general, but if this year has confirmed anything for me it’s that if I want to know what’s really happening ...

A video recently surfaced online of high school students mocking a native elder outside the Lincoln Memorial. Rightfully, there was outrage. There was a cry for respect of veterans, as the elder is a Vietnam Veteran. There were demands the students make apologies. There were angry calls for the students and parents to be educated. But ...

When most people think of the library they have an outdated version of how libraries used to be. For myself, I remember the card catalogs and research papers in a stuffy space. This is not how libraries are today; they have drastically changed yet still remained somewhat the same. I love my local library and couldn’t ...

Have you ever watched a show like Criminal Minds and found yourself wondering what they meant when they referred to a serial killer as organized or disorganized? Have you ever wondered how the profile of the murderers are formed?   Weird as it may sound, serial killers are my passion. Older followers of my articles ...