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Ohio State Endorses Probiotic Yogurt - Using Mouse Studies

Ohio State Endorses Probiotic Yogurt - Using Mouse Studies

Jul 10 2025 | comment(s)

A new paper from Ohio State University can be considered a giant endorsement for yogurt that makes you poop - but unfortunately for giddy food corporations hoping to gain some scientific credibility it is only in mice, and therefore EXPLORATORY.

Because mice are not little people.

You just wouldn't know that from the school's press release, which alleges pesticides are ruining your microbiome and probiotics may save us, a leap so far beyond the scope of the study we have to wonder if the academics involved are about to launch a new line of supplements.
UC Davis Epidemiologists Out To Scare New Mothers Again

UC Davis Epidemiologists Out To Scare New Mothers Again

Jul 09 2025 | comment(s)

In the modern era we can detect anything in anything. Being able to detect in parts per billion, trillion and even quadrillion means that if an epidemiologist can "correlate" a chemical to harm in a spreadsheet, someone raising money opposing science can weaponize the result.

A new paper finding that they can detect chemicals linked to harm in rats with the urine of 201 preschool kids is a new battle in the War on Moms that activists continually wage, but there is no reason for parental concern. Unless you believe in homeopathy.

You Don't Need Government Food Bans For Health, Provide Structure And Choice For Kids

You Don't Need Government Food Bans For Health, Provide Structure And Choice For Kids

Jul 01 2025 | comment(s)

If you need any new evidence that science is just another arm of politics, look to the switch in the Republican party once President Donald Trump embraced former Natural Resources Defense Council lawyer, friend of Obama, and anti-science zealot Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.(1)
Like Food Coloring Now, Cultural Mullahs Once Claimed Mexican Food Was A Gateway To Disease

Like Food Coloring Now, Cultural Mullahs Once Claimed Mexican Food Was A Gateway To Disease

Jun 27 2025 | comment(s)

In 1915's The Temperance Program, Thomas F. Hubbard et al. laid out the progressive case for why alcohol needed to be banned so convincingly that in 1917, with Democratic control of both houses of Congress and the White House, they got the 18th Amendment to the Constitution out of Washington, D.C. and into voting by the states.(1) Because people irrationally sided with elites then as they do now, Democratic states immediately ratified it and it raced to the 36 needed so quickly that the two Republican-controlled states that voted it down, Connecticut and Rhode Island, were irrelevant.
Obama Invented Prediabetes And Kennedy's Wearable Health Monitors Are The Next Evolution

Obama Invented Prediabetes And Kennedy's Wearable Health Monitors Are The Next Evolution

Jun 25 2025 | comment(s)

Former Natural Resources Defense Council Attorney Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. didn't get more pro-science by becoming Secretary of Health and Human Services, he instead acts like his beliefs in The Ancient Ways - no cell phones, no vaccines, food scarcity - have been validated.

He has proposed "wellness farms" to combat various problems he insists are lifestyle issues only government can fix. Basically, he is piling onto beliefs he advocated when his friend and fellow Democrat President Barack Obama was in office.(1) By his second term, President Obama wanted government so desperately in the lives of people he manufactured two things that "Obamacare" could fix; a prediabetes and a vaping epidemic.
Lottery Bottle Bill Could Improve Recycling

Lottery Bottle Bill Could Improve Recycling

Jun 19 2025 | comment(s)

In the 1980s, there was a conflict raging about recycling. Governments were starting to do it while states that had a 'bottle bill' - a deposit on bottles you got refunded upon return - wanted to keep their success.