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Sue And Settle At EPA: Has Another Environmental Lawsuit Been Pre-Arranged?

Sue And Settle At EPA: Has Another Environmental Lawsuit Been Pre-Arranged?

May 08 2016 | comment(s)

The United States Environmental Protection Agency has already been caught releasing proposals for early commentary to environmental trial lawyers and even republished Sierra Club talking points about Keystone XL, making them officially from the Obama administration.

You may not be surprised. The modern EPA is stuffed with former environmental activists, being at Union of Concerned Scientists is practically a shoe-in for a government job during the last seven years. Yet those clearly conflicted EPA officials have never recused themselves from decisions, even when being lobbied by their friends at activist organizations.

Anti-GMO Beliefs Are Linked To Lower Intelligence

Anti-GMO Beliefs Are Linked To Lower Intelligence

Apr 21 2016 | comment(s)

Whole Foods, NPR, and environmental groups brag about how wealthy and educated their customers are but recent data instead show that anti-GMO beliefs are actually a sign of being less educated. This is a big blow to Organic Consumers Association and the attack groups they fund to say just the opposite, such as U.S. Right To Know and SourceWatch.

How did anti-science activists opposing vaccines and affordable food fool so many for so long?
Anti-GMO Beliefs Are Held By People With Lower Education

Anti-GMO Beliefs Are Held By People With Lower Education

Apr 20 2016 | comment(s)

A YouGov poll found that anti-GMO beliefs are a sign of being less educated. It is something the science community has always known but organic industry trade groups such as Organic Consumers Association, U.S. Right To Know, and SourceWatch try to claim the opposite - that the customers of their clients are super-smart.
Journalists Are Right To Question The Credibility Of IARC

Journalists Are Right To Question The Credibility Of IARC

Apr 20 2016 | comment(s)

The International Agency for Research on Cancer got a skeptical look from journalists and the general public after epidemiologists in the UN group declared that sausage is as dangerous as cigarette smoking, plutonium, mustard gas and asbestos.    

That doesn't pass the smell test and everyone can see it. Obviously those things are riskier than an Oscar Mayer bologna sandwich. The problem is that most people can't recognize IARC's other bizarre claims as being just as irrelevant to the real world.

Reuters Exposes Another IARC Controversy

Reuters Exposes Another IARC Controversy

Apr 19 2016 | comment(s)

The International Agency for Research on Cancer, a  United Nations epidemiological group located in France, has been around since the 1960s but only recently got a skeptical look from journalists and the general publi.

Because they declared that sausage is the same risk as cigarette smoking, plutonium, mustard gas and asbestos.

You read that right.



Anyone with any knowledge of science knows that doesn't pass the smell test. Obviously those things are riskier than an Oscar Mayer bologna sandwich.

Abengoa Leads The Way In Showing Solar Needs Fewer Subsidies

Abengoa Leads The Way In Showing Solar Needs Fewer Subsidies

Apr 18 2016 | comment(s)

I am a big fan of solar power. In Science Left Behind I argued we should be doing basic research to improve our capabilities in the technology so that it can be a viable end game for when fossil fuels no longer make sense.