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The Paradox Of Millennials

The Paradox Of Millennials

Oct 28 2012 | comment(s)

They are not buying into global warming except they care about the environment more than anyone ever did before. They will eat healthier than previous generations, provided the products are in pouches and not cans and can be purchased in vending machines and be...microwaveable. Except it needs to be slow food and locally grown.

What's up with Millennials? More importantly, what is up with marketing people and all their conflicting beliefs about Millennials?
GMOs Won't Kill You, But That Organic Cupcake Might

GMOs Won't Kill You, But That Organic Cupcake Might

Oct 28 2012 | comment(s)

Both literally and figuratively, our rationality is what makes us human. It is what separates us from our pets, right? Yes, but in many ways we are a lot less rational than other animals, and we even strive to make our irrational aspects rational—which is not rational at all.
What's Healthier, A GMO Cupcake Or An Organic One?

What's Healthier, A GMO Cupcake Or An Organic One?

Oct 27 2012 | comment(s)

Are you healthier if you eat cupcake from a mix you buy in a grocery store, which would be required to have a GMO label if California's Proposition 37 passes, or an 'organic' cupcake from Whole Foods?

On a science site, you know I would not ask that question if the answer were not obvious.  Humans are inherently irrational, even in our quest to rationalize our odd behavior, like claiming random mutations due to high-energy cosmic rays are better than precisely controlled human ones, because the former are 'natural' - or eating an incredibly healthy cupcake because it is more expensive and in a fancy 'health food' store.
Magic Rocks Update: Abound Solar Gets Investigated

Magic Rocks Update: Abound Solar Gets Investigated

Oct 26 2012 | comment(s)

A little over a year ago I wrote about the continued disturbing trend in government subsidies of 'magic rocks' while claiming they were science - in that instance, commercial solar companies that were being propped up by American taxpayers, with little or no due diligence, because the president and his Energy Secretary said we were in a 'race with China' to produce cheap solar panels, when China has no unions and no environmental policies and therefore a much lower cost basis.
Scientization Of Politics: Why Political Scientists Suddenly Love Biology

Scientization Of Politics: Why Political Scientists Suddenly Love Biology

Oct 26 2012 | comment(s)

The scientization of politics is taking a cultural or political world view and rationalizing it using science. Since it is election time in America, it has been open season on Republicans, with social scientists, who are around 99% Democrats, looking for ways to convince people to vote for their candidates - but they want to look impartial doing it.
Do You Choose Organic Food Or Green Energy?

Do You Choose Organic Food Or Green Energy?

Oct 25 2012 | comment(s)

Which do you love more, organic food or green energy?  Because you may have to choose.

Oregon is the site of a conflict between food and energy, though it is a state that claims it loves both - but the people who love each primarily do so because it makes them money. You really can't love both anyway, because environmental activists are in a never-ending war against the bulk of society and its bad habits, and also in a war with each other.  They not only love Gaia more than you do, they love Gaia more than other environmentalists.