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Environmentalists, What Are You Asking From Dedmoroz Lenin For Earth Day This Year?

Tomorrow is Earth Day. It is also Lenin's birthday. That's not coincidence. The leader of...

How Ancel Keys Went From MAHA Hero To MAHA Villain

If a lot of the food and health claims you read and hear today seem like things left over from...

Are Baseball Pitchers Faster Today?

On September 7, 1974, pitching for the California Angels, Nolan Ryan, known for his velocity, became...

Ground-Nesting Bee Populations Don't Get Publicity But They're Everywhere

Honeybees get attention in environmental fundraising campaigns because people don't understand...

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Cornell Students Want Their Own Kangaroo Court For GMOs

Cornell Students Want Their Own Kangaroo Court For GMOs

Oct 04 2016 | comment(s)

Cornell students want to "debate" GMOs tomorrow, and while finding anti-science activists is easy - Michael Hanson of Consumers Union will go anywhere to undermine food, that is why The Dr. Oz Show loves him, and they also got someone named Jonathan Latham of Independent Science News - what they couldn't find was a scientist.
Microbiome: 'Emerging Medical Science' Is The New Term For Chasing A Fad

Microbiome: 'Emerging Medical Science' Is The New Term For Chasing A Fad

Oct 03 2016 | comment(s)

Nestle, the world's largest food company, has decided to embrace optimizing our microbiome, which consists of trillions of bacteria living in the digestive system and which has been linked to depression, multiple sclerosis, autism - you name it, and someone is claiming their product will fix it.
'Of Questionable Evidentiary Weight' — Another Nail In IARC's Glyphosate Coffin

'Of Questionable Evidentiary Weight' — Another Nail In IARC's Glyphosate Coffin

Sep 27 2016 | comment(s)

It seems like a hundred years ago that the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) was considered a neutral force for public good - but it was only 51.

In 1965, when the Agency was created by the United Nations, there was a lot of optimism about science and the future and IARC was created to instill confidence in the public about the difference between real harm and scaremongering.

California Methane Caps Could Hurt Organic Farming Most

California Methane Caps Could Hurt Organic Farming Most

Sep 24 2016 | comment(s)

California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a new law demanding that dairy cows stop producing so much methane. They are basically giant fracking wells on four legs, after all. 
March Against Monsanto Claims Vaccines Cause Cancer

March Against Monsanto Claims Vaccines Cause Cancer

Sep 23 2016 | comment(s)

In 2012's "Science Left Behind" I noted something that was perfectly obvious to anyone who was not in a progressive ideological bunker - that while both the American left and right were each anti-science about some things, only the right wing got any science media attention about it. And that was despite the fact that the left's anti-science beliefs are far more dangerous.
A Win For Clean Energy

A Win For Clean Energy

Sep 21 2016 | comment(s)

Today the House Committee on Ways and Means put a likely end to the production tax credit expiration for nuclear energy by approving H.R.5879 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the credit for production from advanced nuclear power facilities. Since new facilities will be public-private partnerships, and public entities can't be taxed, this was creating a lot of confusion and that meant if nothing was done, the incentive for a company to help build an expensive clean energy plant would be gone.