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Friends of the Earth: 'Vaccine Apartheid' Crusaders Open A New War On Food
Friends of the Earth was famously started by an anti-nuclear activist who believed his employer, Sierra Club, did not hate science enough.You read that right. Sierra Club, founded by a rabid eugenicis...
Earth Sciences
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Biochar X: Helping Earthworms Navigate Organic Copper Sulfate Contamination
After President Bill Clinton ordered his US Department of Agriculture to make a government "organic" marketing designation for products that used older pesticides and genetic engineering, the industry...
Life Sciences
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The Enchanted Broomstick Of Kinesin-1
In the 1980s, scientists captured the precise mechanics of a protein machine. It looked strange, to researchers its tall thin structure with stubby legs invoked the enchanted broomstick that stole the...
Medicine
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Supplement Believers, Throw Out The Miracle Tree: Moringa Leaf Powder Has Salmonella
Supplement believers who buy into antioxidants and unvalidated claims about quercetin and promoting heart health, eye health, digestive health...basically, everything...love Moringa leaf powder, becau...
Physical Sciences
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PFAS Can Be Replaced In Medicine - For A Cost
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, commmonly called PFAS, are about 12,000 chemicals, nearly all found in nature, and since the 1940s, a handful have been synthesized for use in various products. Be...
Social Sciences
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Defining AI
Artificial Intelligence will probably be remembered as the least well-defined technological advancement of humankind.Ever since the two words were reportedly put together in a sentence - and we know w...
