Mohammed El Naschie brought a libel suit against Nature Publishing Group and a journalist there and at Bristol Crown Court today the judgment stated, "My conclusions are that the Article is substantially true, whether one considers the meanings complained of by the Claimant or justified by the Defendants, that it contains comments which are defensible as honest comment, and that it was the product of responsible journalism, so that the defence of Reynolds privilege succeeds."

In other words, the truth is still defense against libel. 
 

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, General in the War On Choice, is nothing if not inconsistent.  You can't decide how much salt to use in NYC or decide what size soda to buy, thanks to imperial fiat, but you can gorge yourself on hot dogs in public and be a bad role model for what Bloomberg considers the most gullible and unintelligent people in the world.

Mayor Bloomberg does not want to look hypocritical so he now says there is nothing wrong with the occasional fast food meal. Why ban something if it is occasionally okay?  I guess he means there is nothing wrong with occasional fast food as long as he decides when that occasion is. Like when it gets him a photo op.

The government has mandated labeling standards to warn consumers of potential hazards, like smoking's link to cancer and lung disease.

But science illiterates (AKA progressive social authoritarians) are taking that example and insisting GM foods should also carry a warning label - despite no instance of them being harmful or unhealthy. 

A recent air leak from a laboratory at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, a lab that studies dangerous pathogens like influenza, tuberculosis and rabies, is a very serious issue because it has the potential to harm both employees and the public. 

Leave it to Congress to put on some political theater and declare they will investigate - using lawyers.  

It's not that there are no people in Congress with expertise,  Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., is a microbiologist.  She just isn't on the committee of 54 law school graduates figuring out what went wrong.

Thanks, Congress.  I feel safer knowing you will be posturing and grandstanding about this. 

Bees use mathematical prowess to communicate the exact location of nearby food to other bees via a technique dubbed the "bee dance." It is the only known instance of symbolic communication in the animal kingdom (unless we consider there are deeper metaphors in "Real Housewives of New Jersey") and today a group of scientists are building a robot that can mimic that behavior of bees.

In the 1940s, ethologist and Nobel laureate Karl von Frisch became the first person to decode the bee dance.

Progressives and liberals delight in any sort of pseudoscience that implicates the right wing, especially if it can claim their political opposition has a brain defect or some sort of 'control' fetish.

They don't like it at all when anything psychological makes them look less moral.  And they really don't like Jonathan Haidt - because he is a liberal, atheist social psychologist and therefore should only go after conservatives.  He confesses he once thought of conservatism as a “Frankenstein monster,”, an ugly mishmash of Christian fundamentalism, racism and authoritarianism.

Poor NASA. Even since a Democrat took over as president the world is convinced Americans are imperialists bent on flexing their muscles in areas like...disaster relief.

Disaster relief and humanitarian assistance are just two of the 'sinister' things critics in Thailand contend NASA may secretly be involved in under the guise of monitoring the atmosphere as part of the "Southeast Asia Composition, Cloud, Climate Coupling Regional Study". The project will use satellites, aircraft and ground missions to study how air circulation during the monsoon affected the climate and air quality in South and Southeast Asia.

The Canadian military has it tough these days.  The legends of World Was II are only 50,000 strong and in a government that basically does not think very much of them.

Oddly, they are being tasked with saving the environment in Canada.

Canadian Forces Base Suffield, Alberta., is in a quiet tug-of-war with the oil and gas industry. Last year by the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board to approve 47 non-routine natural gas well applications by energy giant Cenovus.

So along with what is traditionally been considered the core mission of any military - preparation for combat - they are being forced to juggle government mandates, environmental issue and monitor industrial concerns.