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

In 1915's The Temperance Program, Thomas F. Hubbard et al. laid out the progressive case for why...

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

Former Natural Resources Defense Council Attorney Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. didn't get more pro-science...

Lottery Bottle Bill Could Improve Recycling

In the 1980s, there was a conflict raging about recycling. Governments were starting to do it while...

Golden Dome Missile Shield A 'No-Brainer', According To EMP Expert

Over 40 years ago, President Ronald Reagan, the most pro-science president of the 20th century...

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WISEcode: Psychologist Proposes A New Way To Exempt Processed Foods From Harm Claims

WISEcode: Psychologist Proposes A New Way To Exempt Processed Foods From Harm Claims

Jun 04 2025 | comment(s)

Processed and Ultra-Processed™ foods have been heavy-rotation buzzwords in the food activist community since the Obama administration but gained increased attention once the Trump administration came into power and a chief evangelist against modern food, former Natural Resources Defense Council lawyer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., was placed in charge of the world's most important government science agency, the National Institutes of Health.

Now, epidemiology has become a Supreme Court over science and instead of evidence-based decision-making, the default has become that if a harm or benefit can be suggested using food or chemical surveys, government will ban it and then tell scientists to figure out why.
The Way To Finally Make Organic Farming Sustainable Is To Allow Modern Gene Editing

The Way To Finally Make Organic Farming Sustainable Is To Allow Modern Gene Editing

Jun 03 2025 | comment(s)

The organic process is neither viable nor sustainable but a new paper would like to change that. By allowing modern gene editing. The only way Europe can reach the goal of 25% Organic™ farmland that its government-funded environmental groups demand, a 250% increase, is by moving into the 21st century, they argue.

When the organic process was the only thing available, the food-rich were rich and the poor were poor and the only difference was being born into a natural breadbasket. Cycles of famine were common.
For World No Tobacco Day, NFL Biosciences Wants You To Buy Their Tobacco Product

For World No Tobacco Day, NFL Biosciences Wants You To Buy Their Tobacco Product

May 26 2025 | comment(s)

NFL Biosciences is has a Marketing Authorization Application for a smoking cessation technique derived from an allergen treatment in the 1970s that has been quietly used as an unauthorized smoking cessation tool for 10 years. A lot like vaping pens were before the Obama administration tried to claim all tobacco was as harmful as cigarette smoking, an actual carcinogen.

And it works better than placebo, just like vaping, but lots of people have quit using hypnosis and we know that isn't science. This helps due to off-target effects from its original purpose, preventing allergic reactions in workers who used tobacco plants, thanks to how it modifies glucose metabolism.

Disclosing AI Use Leads To A Drop In Trust. So Does Not Disclosing It

Disclosing AI Use Leads To A Drop In Trust. So Does Not Disclosing It

May 23 2025 | comment(s)

Chicago Sun-Times writer Marco Buscaglia used the popular LLM ChatGPT to create the 2025 "summer reading list" they wanted for subscribers and had enough confidence in the result that he didn't check the work. 

The problem was that LLMs are not really AI, despite claims by companies selling this stuff that they are. They are certainly not Intelligent. So while the list had real authors, half of the books did not exist.
Does Ecology Have A Cultural Cancer?

Does Ecology Have A Cultural Cancer?

May 22 2025 | comment(s)

A new paper argues that academic ecology is culturally corroded. 

'Stay in your lane', 'do you want to die on that hill?' and other territorial and undermining behavior were reported by 44% of predominantly ecologists who responded to a survey. They say it was most common as graduate students, a third of the time by their own supervisor. Of those, 18 percent reported they had experienced it multiple times.
Who Paid For Prostitutes First, The Human Or The Monkey? The Chen Paper Turns 20

Who Paid For Prostitutes First, The Human Or The Monkey? The Chen Paper Turns 20

May 21 2025 | comment(s)

It is often joked that 'prostitution was the first profession' and, that it is not a profession aside, the sentiment may be true. Someone with a lot of food and the ability to prevent it being taken may have worked out a deal with someone who had no food but willingness to satisfy a different basic need. It would still mean food gathering was the first profession but that's not as funny.

Lots of animals barter and steal and fight, humans are not even very good at it compared to most creatures, but the anthropological consensus is that humans are the only species to understand 'money.' Money is a token whose actual value may be negligible but with intangible value that is not only agreed upon by a larger community, it is fungible. It can be traded for many goods.(1)