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Europe Ponders Another Year Trying To Combat Fall Armyworm Without Modern Pesticides

The polyphagous Spodoptera frugiperda (fall armyworm), a Lepidopteran pest, has European farmers...

The End To Universities Using Graduate Students As Piggy Banks Is Near

In the 1980s, the majority party in Congress saw demography claims that people with college educations...

Contrary To The Poltical Narrative, A Lot Of Government Science Funding Doesn't Go To Science

Every day we read a new headline warning us that American leadership is about to erode because...

Ohio State Endorses Probiotic Yogurt - Using Mouse Studies

A new paper from Ohio State University can be considered a giant endorsement for yogurt that makes...

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How Proposition 65 Made Products More Expensive Even Outside California

How Proposition 65 Made Products More Expensive Even Outside California

Apr 07 2025 | comment(s)

When the Proposition 65 referendum, the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, was being debated, concerns about abuse and high cost were dismissed by the lawyers behind it with the assurance that lawyers wouldn't decide what products would be deemed carcinogens, the state would abdicate that to France's International Agency for Research on Cancer.
French Chicks Impacted Most: Activists Set Their Sights On Banning Tebuconazole

French Chicks Impacted Most: Activists Set Their Sights On Banning Tebuconazole

Apr 04 2025 | comment(s)

A French team conducted experiments using sparrow chicks and write in Environmental Research that their tests led to slower growth, with females impacted most. 

They targeted the common fungicide tebuconazole, popular on food crops because it can stop everything from necrotic ring spot to blights, mildews, and smuts. They compare it to the popular weedkiller glyphosate, which they claim has caused a decline in birds in Europe, despite scientists showing the top reason for bird population changes in various areas has been land use changes and not the use of pesticides lacking an Organic™ label.
With Fluoride Ban, Utah Sets Out To Be The California Of The Right Wing

With Fluoride Ban, Utah Sets Out To Be The California Of The Right Wing

Mar 28 2025 | comment(s)

When asked about an effort to ban fluoride in drinking water, Utah Governor Spencer Cox said, "It’s not a bill I care that much about” but he still signed it, despite the health benefits being well-established and claims of harm being the kind of slimy epidemiology that claims "risk" of BPA, weedkillers, PFAS, and too many products to count.

Utah wants to be the California of the right-wing; ban things because it matches the politics of their voters and science will be marginalized.(1)
If The World Bank Stops Banning Nuclear, Boomer Environmentalism Is Over

If The World Bank Stops Banning Nuclear, Boomer Environmentalism Is Over

Mar 24 2025 | comment(s)

Greenpeace is facing bankruptcy after a $667,000,000 judgment. For the first time ever, the number of U.S. federal employees declined. Democrats have begun to consider they might be wrongly defending terrorists. They even became pro-vaccine for the first time this century. 

The best thing President Donald Trump may have done for science and political sanity is to switch from Democrat to Republican and bring Bobby Kennedy Jr. and Elon Musk along with him. It forced Democrats, who are nearly 90% of career government employees, to suddenly defend things they had opposed for decades.(1)

Like nuclear energy. Which means we could usher in a new Golden Age of Science.
H5N1: Raw Milk And Raw Pet Food Are Unsafe But Raw Cheese Aged 60 Days Is 87% Not Killing You

H5N1: Raw Milk And Raw Pet Food Are Unsafe But Raw Cheese Aged 60 Days Is 87% Not Killing You

Mar 14 2025 | comment(s)

The only real way to wipe out H5N1, the bird flu that has been ruining egg prices since last year, is to kill off all the wild birds. That is not practical but what we can do is stop buying raw pet food. All of it. Now. And never start again. You will kill your cat if it is transmitted in that food. And stop buying raw milk. All of it. Now. And never start again.
Epidemiologists Blame 15th Century Science For Modern Brain Tumors

Epidemiologists Blame 15th Century Science For Modern Brain Tumors

Mar 11 2025 | comment(s)

Claims about occupational hazards, chemicals correlated to disease, occur every week, from non-stick spatulas to flame-retardant couches, and the group targeted more by those efforts than pregnant women are first responders like firefighters.

A new paper links gliomas in the brain or spinal cords to a specific mutation and then using epidemiological correlation to "suggest" cause from haloalkene, a common chemical in use for 600 years and in the 20th century in nearly every home with fire extinguishers, but then denying they are trying to suggest cause down at the bottom.