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Babes Against Biotech: We'll Exploit Women Until You Hate Science

Aug 02 2013 | comment(s)

What do anti-science groups do that science never seems to do?

Trot out naked women.

PETA - constantly, Greenpeace - sure, using cheescake to raise money for their corporate agenda is nothing new for groups that have neither data nor reason nor ethics.

But Babes Against Biotech is not even hiding behind a pretense of caring about a naturalistic fallacy. It is so ridiculous and goofy I at first assumed that some evil corporation had created it to make anti-science hippies look sexist.

The President's Behavioral Insights Project Wants You

Aug 02 2013 | comment(s)

There are two ways to influence the public - basically carrots and sticks. A stick is, of course, taxes and fees and regulations and armed federal agents at your house should you choose not to obey the law.

A carrot is to create a Behavioral Insights project, similar to one that exists in the United Kingdom, tasked with using the awesome power of social science to create the behavior they want - it's like framing on steroids.

If National Review Wants Scientists To Take Conservatives Seriously, Jettison The Discovery Institute

Aug 01 2013 | comment(s)

How would editors at National Review regard the credibility of a controlled market publication that had its economic policy articles written by astrologers using the stars as their evidence?

They might not like it but so what? Can they prove astrologers can't make economic policy? No, it's just flawed logic, sort of like me challenging someone to prove I am not an alien from space. That is the problem with National Review paying someone from the Discovery Institute to spout anti-science nonsense about 35-year-old science under the guise of 'ethics'. Because misunderstanding and logical head-faking is the strategy the Discovery Institute uses to promote doubt about biology in general and evolution in specific.

Pizza PLEASURE: A First World Solution To A First World Problem

Jul 31 2013 | comment(s)

Pizza may be symptomatic of many First World problems: 50% of Europe is overweight or obese and there is concern about hypertension, type 2 diabetes, stroke or certain cancers linked to nutrition.

So what do European politicians do? They set out to fund pizza science so that it still tastes great but is less likely to kill you instead of, you know, eating less pizza.

Don't get me wrong, I love capitalism. I have zero problem with Sugar Frosted Chocolate Bombs on Saturday morning cartoons or some guy from "The Sopranos" telling me women will like me more if I pour tequila from a bottle cap, and I have no problem with someone selling a healthier pizza. It just seems like there is an easier solution.

Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells From Urine Used To Create Human Tooth

Jul 30 2013 | comment(s)

Researchers writing in Cell Regeneration report that they used induced pluripotent stem cells from urine to create a human tooth structure.

The integration-free human urine induced pluripotent stem cells were differentiated to epithelial sheets ( from the Greek meaning 'upon breast', since it was first considered the skin on the breast), one of the four types of tissue (others are nervous, muscle and collective tissue) and after 3 weeks they were able to get tooth-like structures using 8 different lines with a success rate of up to 30%.

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