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

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How Ancel Keys Went From MAHA Hero To MAHA Villain

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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

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When It Comes To Neonics, Activists Understand PR Better Than Chemical Companies Do

Dec 02 2014 | comment(s)

Imagine a scenario where a group of people get together to frame the debate about science and even set out to conspiratorially place papers in highly-respected journals, selecting the ideal names to have on the paper and which publications would be most likely to publish it.

It must be those evil corporate chemical shills again, right?

Not this time, it was the International Workshop On Neonicotinoids in 2010 and it explains a lot about how the anti-science contingent has managed to maintain so much mindshare in media: they know how to work the system and created a 4-year plan to do just that.

Thanksgiving Science 2014

Nov 26 2014 | comment(s)

Tomorrow I will be eating and science will barely be on my mind.

It will be on some minds. Some people will be trying to find a creative way to make vegan turkey, or free-range stuffing, and generally avoid all chemicals. Good luck with that.

Thanksgiving is Hell for chemophobes, though so are the other 364 days when they get hit with the scientific mic-drop notion that every food on earth contains a carcinogen known to cause cancer in rats.

Labels won't save you, it's all stuffed with chemicals, we just don't get told about them on labels if a chicken craps them out:

GMO Labels Are Good For The $105 Billion Organic Industry - But No One Else

Nov 21 2014 | comment(s)

Frank Priestley, President of the Idaho Farm Bureau, notes that some consumers will benefit from GMO labeling laws - if those consumers are organic farmers and have an audience so educated by advertising that they will pay almost any price for 'health'.

No one was as surprised as farmers that a GMO warning label law, almost identical in verbiage to the California version written by the lawyer who got Prop 65 warnings on every product in every business of the state and made himself a multi-millionaire in lawsuits enforcing it, failed in Oregon this month.

Want A Man To Help? High Heels Work

Nov 19 2014 | comment(s)

Following a woman in high heels up out of the subway is like discovering America. Following a woman in flip-flops up out of the subway is like riding the subway. - Rich Brookhiser

Women judge men by their shoes, that is no secret. Women colloquially say that they know how a man will treat them based on how much he cares about his footwear and (bonus tell: how he treats the waitress in a restaurant).

Phthalates And Prostates: Endocrine Disruptors Shortening The Distance Between Male Anus And Penis

Nov 18 2014 | comment(s)

Men are becoming more effeminate. That is not news. If you watched the ESA's Rosetta mission arrive at Comet P67 you saw a tattoo-covered fellow talk about engineering and he looked manly, but two days later he was crying during a press conference because his bowling shirt had offended women on Twitter.

Why Finland Does Well On Standardized Tests

Nov 15 2014 | comment(s)

Finns are not more liberal about education because kids don't have to wear shoes, they are really conservative - the last country in Europe to create mandatory education and their spending on it is small. There is no need to pay more money to teachers so they can pay union dues so union employees can pay lobbyists to lobby the Education Department to use more federal taxes to redistribute it to schools.

Education is by rote.

They only go to grade 9. Why not extend it to make kids even smarter? It costs too much.

They don't spend a lot of time on social justice, they spend it on education. Kids who do not want to continue in academics go to "vocational" school.