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If You Care About Earth Day, Stop Buying Organic, Fair Trade And Other Junk Stickers On Products

As Lenin's Birthday Earth Day approaches, all of media are pillaged by public relations flaks being...

If A Weedkiller Turned You Gay, We'd Like To Interview You

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Study Says Gen X Is 'Biologically Aging' Faster Than Boomers

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Halloween Science: What Elastic Response In Chewing Gum May Mean For Bioactive Ingredients

Oct 16 2023 | comment(s)

A new study sought to analyze the chewing nature of four types of gum bases and along the way determine bubbling capacity also. Gums are generally oils, resins, and elastomers generally held in pleasant form by the gum base.

So gum base is important to manufacturers. Chewing gum is a $25 billion per year business, 1,740,000,000,000 sticks. If humans chew each stick for 10 minutes, that is over 33,000,000 years we spend at it - annually.

Absolute Vs Relative Risk: Why Parents Shouldn't Worry About Kids Walking On Halloween

Oct 16 2023 | comment(s)

Common sense says that if you have a lot more people walking, often in dark costumes, and just as many people driving, plus more people drinking alcohol than would otherwise occur on a Tuesday, pedestrian fatalities will go up.

Common sense is right. They will.

Halloween Candy: Myths And Facts About Healthy Teeth

Oct 09 2023 | comment(s)

When science finally settled the debate between genetics and lifestyle regarding oral health, the world began to set new benchmarks for improved health overall. After World War II it was discovered that bacteria in our mouths create acid from carbohydrates, and that acid erodes the enamel on teeth, which will mean more decay and cavities.

TikTok Can Be More Than Just Harvesting Your Data For Chinese Spies

Oct 05 2023 | comment(s)

Controversial social media video site TikTok has one supporter - a public relations academic at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

A recent paper, ironically in a journal from a publisher that has also been called predatory, argues that TikTok may be effective for encouraging women to get a pap smear, which aids in early detection of cervical cancer, which kills some 4,000 women each year in the United States.

Why Do Kids With Type 1 Diabetes Take More Psychotropic Medication?

Oct 04 2023 | comment(s)

A new analysis found an increasing trend in psychotropic medication dispensation for Swedish children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes. The results from from 2006 to 2019 showed consistent higher use than kids without type 1 diabetes.

Men Don't Go To The Doctor Enough

Oct 03 2023 | comment(s)

Health care in America is broken and the chief reason is the government. In 2009, when Obamacare became part of the President's agenda, I said we should just write out the check for trillions of dollars and nationalize the industry. My reasoning was that anything else would mean we have worse access and much higher cost.