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California's Newest Prop 65 Cancer Warning Is On...Trees

Tourists are not alarmed by Proposition 65 cancer warnings on nearly every product in every store in California, it quickly becomes a joke to them. Scientists in California warned that would happen while trial lawyers behind the referendum insisted it woul ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 11 2023 - 2:49pm

A Personal Update: The Day To Day Work Of One Physicist.

A brief personal update as to what I have been doing.  There has been much interesting science news to discuss.    A possible galaxy comprised of not much more than gas and dark matter with no stars. Many other things in astronomy and physics.  Things I mi ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Nov 2 2023 - 10:39pm

BeautifulPeople.Com Thinks The Virgin Mary Was One Of Its Members

BeautifulPeople.com, the dating community exclusively for good-looking people, is offering the chance to win a date with Joseph and the Virgin Mary- namely by spending a lot of money.  Well, not really the Virgin Mary, they don't want frogs raining o ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 5 2023 - 7:57am

Organic Consumers Association Continues To Be The Embarrassing Stepchild Of The Organic Industry

Organic Consumers Association has opened a new front in their culture war against science- now they say organic food itself is too science-y. Don't they represent organic farmers? No. Unlike Organic Trade Association, the mainstream trade group create ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 14 2023 - 10:12am

Happy Festivus- Here I Air My Anti-Science Grievances

December 23rd is 'Festivus', a not-real holiday invented by the father of George Costanza on the hit television show "Seinfeld", involving an aluminum pole, feats of strength, and, most fun, an airing of grievances.(1) It's the air ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 20 2023 - 10:35am

Guardian Scolds Wall Street Journal For Climate Junk By Writing Its Own

The Wall Street Journal posted a letter from 16 scientists who are critical of climate science in general and anthropogenic warming in specific. There were numerous flaws in the letter (see Robert Cooper's Denialiasm 101 piece An Excellent Study On De ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Feb 2 2024 - 12:34pm