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  • Director of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, The American Council on Science and Health
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THC and CBD: Same formula, very different drugs

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By Josh Bloom
| American Council on Science and Health
CBD and THC have been studied to death, but chemists are still finding new things to say about the surprisingly simple reaction that connects them. A new study published in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry takes a close look at the acid-catalyzed conversion of CBD into THC, examining why different reaction conditions produce different THC isomers.
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Hydrogen fluoride: One reason firefighters dread lithium ion battery fires

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By Josh Bloom
| American Council on Science and Health
As more EVs are used, there will certainly be more EV battery fires. A friend who has been a volunteer firefighter forever and is scared of nothing is scared of these. Are his fears reasonable? Read on. A friend of mine has been a volunteer firefighter for 48 years. He doesn't scare easy. He estimates that he's helped put out 500 fires, running into burning buildings some of the time. That doesn't faze him either.
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Who to believe? Trump or Offit?

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By Josh Bloom
| American Council on Science and Health
For inexplicable reasons, the vaccine spacing debate has popped up yet again, courtesy of President Trump's executive order revisiting childhood vaccine policy. But this isn't a new question. It was addressed 25 years ago in a Pediatrics paper by Paul Offit and colleagues. Here we go again. In matters of vaccine science, immunology, and virology, there are several schools of thought. For convenience, I'll divide them into two categories: “Paul Offit” and “wrong.” That's only partly tongue-in-cheek.
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