If you are venturing into a Whole Foods, it lends to a broad stereotype. Epidemiological data has shown that if you want to find an anti-vaccine, anti-science hotbed, take a protractor and draw a circle around a While Foods. Political pundits say if you want to find rich liberals, do the same thing.

Clearly some people are not going there for those reasons, they are going because they think that organic food has never been genetically modified or that it uses no pesticides. That's due to smart marketing. Really, really smart.  “Great brands impose a view on you,” a Whole Foods advisor says. And they impose. Don't buy organic food? Some mothers will insist you are a bad parent. 

Oh Chipotle, you will a hard time not looking silly when you step into science.

No one is believing your cheese is more ethical than anyone else's cheese.

@onetruecathal @kevinfolta neither. It's an FPC rennet that is not GM.

Real, fake, real, fake, a little scrap of papyrus written in Coptic has Jesus Christ, who made bachelorhood cool long before George Clooney, referring to “my wife”. That's a big deal.

In 2012, a respected Harvard professor, Karen King, brought the papyrus to worldwide attention.

It is certainly old, and written badly enough that it seems authentic, but that doesn't make it authentic. Lots of texts written outside canon make for all kinds of conclusions. But a lack of lineage is a bad sign in archeology and history.

And other documents also supposedly found along with it have turned out to be forgeries. 

What was the line between being a Buccaneer and a Pirate?

It was fuzzy, but it mostly seemed to involve having a royal charter from some seafaring nation or other, and an agreement not to sack their ships - everyone else was fair game.

But just like modern online video technology was spurred by porn and our efforts to improve online privacy have been spurred by the Obama administration, in order to stay one step ahead of a well-armed navy, swashbucklers had to use the latest advances.

And they did. From current, wind, and reef patch information to new species size, coloration, behavioral patterns, and most importantly, edibility, pirates did a lot

Imagine what the reaction would be if it were 2006 and President George W. Bush had an environmental report on his desk from government scientists and chose to ignore the data and stall in order to placate his entrenched constituencies.

Well, we do know, because that's exactly what happened. What is different in 2014 is the reaction from all of the people who insisted Bush - and all Republicans - must hate science. It is an ethical ghost town when President Obama does that same thing, just like there was scant reaction when President Obama edited science reports to match his agenda, about Deepwater Horizon.

Vani Hari, the Foodbabe, promises that if you follow her diet you will look pretty like she does - and to bolster her case she trots out the naturalistic fallacy and a healthy dose of chemical illiteracy, the most famous of which is 'if she can't pronounce it, you shouldn't eat it'.

As Josh Bloom has noted on Science 2.0, she is missing out on delicious chemical-laced treats like Tris-(9-octadecenoyl) trigyceryl mixed esters and  (2E)-3-phenylprop-2-enal. And no science at all would get done without 3,7-Dihydro-1,3,7-trimethyl-1H-purine-2,6-dion. 

Take a look at this 300 foot high wall in Bolivia, which has over 5,000 dinosaur footprints.

3 miles from downtown Sucre, Bolivia is Cal Orko, a limestone slab 0.9 miles long and over 328 feet high. On this steep 73 degree face can see tracks from 68 million years ago. 

Cal Orko has 462 distinct dinosaur tracks from at least 8 different species - 5,055 individual dinosaur footprints. So how do thousands of dinosaur footprints end up on a vertical rock face hundreds of feet high? 

A litany on Science 2.0 is that when something comes up that might be about fish, call Neil Shubin - because he can make anything about fish.

That's because we can make almost anything about fish. He has told the story before, and recounts in his new television show, that students in an anatomy class he taught likely wanted a refund when he explained he was a fish biologist, until he showed them what we all had in common.

Tiktaalik roseae, a 375-million-year-old Devonian period specimen, is one of the great examples of multi-disciplinary science collaboration; biology predicted it, geology predicted how to find it and paleontology predicted where to look. Then they found it. 

A non-peer reviewed claim published in something called the Central European Journal of Urology is all that's needed for American environmentalists to declare that cell phones are causing men to be unable to get it up.

What was the evidence? Surveys they matched to the International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF) and then answering questions about cell phone habits.

This goofiness is being perpetuated by Natural News, which is basically the Weekly World News of health coverage.  Look for them to claim pesticides are creating Bat Boys next: