Coming into the Democratic convention, science academia is going to be enthusiastic in its support of President Obama. Unlike counterparts in private-sector science, academia will vote up to 85% Democratic and some of that reason has been that Democrats are more 'pro-science' than Republicans.
Obviously that isn't true, I (co)wrote a whole book itemizing how progressives who have a vocal minority among Democrats hijack their liberal and even conservative brethren. They're dangerous and their anti-science positions far outweigh the craziness on the right. A complete itemized list isn't possible in an article but we can talk about one thing; money.
Obesity is not just happening in New York City 7-Elevens(1), it is also happening in aging bones.
Bone marrow stem cells, which are adult stem cells, are in their fifth decade of uncontroversial new discovery. But they can still surprise us. Our bones may be getting fatter as we age, and it could lead to
osteoporosis, the condition where
bone mineral density is 2.5 standard deviations below the mean (62%). The NIH estimates that up to 50% of women and 25% of men over the age of 50 will break a bone due to osteoporosis.
I'm not much of a drinker, never have been. I have always assumed it was because I did competitive athletics until I was about 25, which means I was outside the age where you 'learn' to like the taste of alcohol, so I never picked it up.
Older now, I can drink a beer socially and I sometimes drink a glass of red wine because the consensus says it is good for you in moderation, but I am still not really a drinker.
Once a year someone is claiming to be on the trail of Atlantis, a science-fiction city or nation or whatever in which super-smart people from the past were somehow wiped out and took a whole lot of cool technology with them.
Last year,
it was at least interestingly supposed to be in Spain.
Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, died last Saturday in Ohio at age 82 and his funeral service is tomorrow. Like most everything else about him, the service is private.
Yet the cosmos has decided to ignore the wishes of his family and so Armstrong is getting a special event for the occasion: a blue moon. Either that, or his family is being clever.
I am a lot more skeptical than most people who call themselves Skeptics; I am skeptical about more than Bigfoot and religion, I am even skeptical that (a) all Democratic politicians are pro-science while Republicans are not and (b) either of their voters are genetically super smart just by filling out a voter registration form. Skeptics can't violate those pet positions or a few others - James Randi learned that
when he dared to ask if numerical models about global warming were accurate. There's skepticism, and then there is people not buying tickets to your conference if you ask the wrong questions, and you had better know the difference.
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