Chemistry
- Appeals Court Wants EPA To Ban Chlorpyrifos, Without Seeing Any Data
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Environmental trial lawyers are thrilled that the politically friendly 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 14 2019 - 5:18pm
- BPA Causes Diabetes? Fred Vom Saal Is Proof Aging Researchers Sometimes Lose Their Minds
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Dr. Jane Goodall is in a panic about GMOs and all of modern agriculture. What isn't plagiarized in her screeds about food is a mishmash of conjecture, anti-science mysticism, and lack of a clue about biology. She is not alone in losing her mind a bit ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 17 2019 - 12:42pm
- Paola Mayfield Bleaching Her Hair While Pregnant Is Perfectly Safe
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Mommy shaming and chemophobia have long found common cause when it comes to the cosmetics industry. Though mercenary, it is understandable why companies that make labels "certifying" something safe, and activists raising money touting our doom, p ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 20 2018 - 2:48pm
- How To Reduce Gadolinium Heavy Metal Contrast Agent In MRI Using AI
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In 2017, action star Chuck Norris and his wife Gena sued 11 companies for $10 million over gadolinium used in her MRIs, stating she was poisoned by the contrast agent. ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 26 2018 - 10:37am
- Trace Levels Of Flame Retardant Chemicals In Car Seats Are Not Harming Your Child
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Marta Venier, an environmentalist at Indiana University, recently teamed up with a Michigan activist group to "test" car seats and declared they had toxic chemicals. Obviously that is media clickbait but if you are reading here, you want to know ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 3 2018 - 5:48pm
- Trace Chemicals Detectable On Cell Phones Are Not Targeting Women, Or Anyone Else
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In Science Left Behind I showed that in America it was easy to accurately correlate beliefs about science to political viewpoints. If you believed in psychics, witchcraft, organic food or homeopathy, statistically I could be determine how you voted. If you ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 5 2018 - 11:52am
- Brazzein Is All Natural, 0 Calorie, 2000 Times Sweeter Than Sugar- Now It Could Be Cheap To Produce
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Does the world need another sweetener? With debates raging over cane sugar, corn sugar, beet sugar, raw sugar, and numerous zero-calorie alternatives to sugar, new products would seem to be just another thing for Center for Science in the Public Interest t ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 13 2018 - 11:58am
- Essential Oils Yield Microbials To Preserve Wine
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Researchers have studied the effectiveness of new antimicrobial systems based on the use of essential oils extracted from plants such as thyme or cinnamon to improve the preservation of foods and found them suitable- with no smell or taste. As the develope ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 21 2018 - 2:35pm
- California, Get Rid Of Paper Receipts But Don't Use Anti-Science Scaremongering As The Reason
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A California lawmaker wants to ban paper receipts- those annoying long things that immediately get lost in a grocery bag- but instead of promoting the legitimate reason to get rid of them, they are useless, he invoked chemical scaremongering. ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 17 2019 - 12:42pm
- Hexenyl Butyrate: Volatile Compound Found In Tomato Plants Protects Against Bacteria
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Tomato plants emit a volatile compound named hexenyl butyrate which can be used for closing the stomata, key in protecting plants from bacterial attacks. But Center for Science in the Public Interest and Environmental Working Group don't need to mobi ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 14 2019 - 10:51am