If you are part of 350.org - hopefully not the part that endorses KKK tactics(1)- or Extinction Rebellion or whatever group will be claiming we need more violent action about climate change, this article is not for you because it discusses science, and if you are members of those groups, you don't know science any more than Discovery Institute knows evolution anyway, so you can move along.

If you care about the state of the science that can help right the ship yet are jaded by hype about how we are going extinct in 18 months (or 10 years, or 30 years), Dr. Henry Miller has a roundup of what will work, what is just political posturing masquerading as viable solutions, and what will simply increase the negative results of climate change by misdirecting resources.

Just because it is a supplement does not mean it is good for you - or in most cases necessary. And "the dose makes the poison" so even if it can't harm you at low levels (no matter what homeopaths and endocrine disruption proponents claims) it can harm you at high ones.

Vitamin D is essential but at high levels it can be toxic, which is why we have warned for years about the Vitamin D supplement fad. 

It's pretty common for politicians and the public to rant about Big Pharma but most people don't know what they are talking about. Though they say "Big Pharma" the real culprits in gouging the public are instead generic companies who bilk the public (Purdue, Mylan, etc.) even though they didn't spend a penny doing any original science.

And when it comes to people who believe in alternatives to medicine and hate the real thing, they'll throw in thalidomide. What they don't know is that thalidomide was never approved in the U.S. European doctors had been using it off-label for pregnant women and American scientists discovered it caused birth defects when Europeans wanted to sell it here.

Media are framing the reappearance of a "Spanish" Stonehenge dating back 7,000 years as a harbinger of climate change drought, and while there is plenty of reason to be concerned about emissions, this is not it.

Hyping things like this instead undermines confidence in science. But media do it every day, claiming a "bird apocalypse" last week and endocrine disruption every month before that. 

Tiger mom, sure, but don't mess with a walrus either. When a Russian navy landing boat got too close to her calves, a mama walrus sank it for them, CNN reports.  

The Russian navy did their best to salvage their pride, writing, "Serious troubles were avoided thanks to the clear and well-coordinated actions of the Northern Fleet servicemen, who were able to take the boat away from the animals without harming them."

You might not think the somber, sacred nature of medieval Catholic rites has much in common with the ornate, secular pomp of Hollywood films, but they do - everything from "Star Wars" to "It's A Wonderful Life" uses a particular four notes to get serious points across.

Nothing would be more ridiculous than an evangelical doing an exorcism in a possession movie, you need to have Latin to get the cultural power flowing, even though no one speaks Latin (unless you have a really old priest, since when Vatican II decided to become hip and use local languages for mass no one doesn't understand Mass equally any more), and it helps to go old school in cinema as well.

Given a choice between eating brown rice or white rice, many people pick brown, citing the clean, natural, brown rice as a way to be healthier while white rice has been marketed as unhealthy because it is more "processed."

That's a meaningless marketing designation, though not as dumb as "ultra-processed." All food is processed. If you have ever tried eating rice or wheat out of the ground, you know that.

When it comes to calorie, protein, carb, fat, and fiber content, they are nearly identical and the difference between them is almost as biologically meaningless as eating non-GMO pumpkin whatever (there is no GMO pumpkin.)

The number of birds in North America has declined by 3 billion, according to one group's estimate, and New York Times is sounding the alarm over it, like they sound the alarm over everything.

But this was written by Carl Zimmer, who's not usually prone to hyperbole, so it's surprising to see him taking an estimate based on amateur logs as fact, and then quoting Rachel Carson, author of the activist Bible called "Silent Spring."  (1)

When the political debate about abortion was the rage there was concern by some that it was modern day eugenics. Federal abortions would overwhelmingly impact minorities, they said, while others argued that abortions controlled by states meant only wealthy people got them.