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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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Prop 65 Is A California Gimmick That Raises Prices For The Poor

Prop 65 Is A California Gimmick That Raises Prices For The Poor

Feb 13 2025 | comment(s)

Proposition 65 was a voter referendum that stated if a chemical was correlated to cancer, it needed to have a cancer warning label. Lawyers who were behind the public relations effort to get it passed assured consumers it would not be abused. Yet a few years later, epidemiologists inside the once-credible International Agency for Research on Cancer in France set out to gain "expert witness" contracts from lawyers and began to create more and more "correlations" - no science needed, just a possible link in mice - and now over 80,000 products carry these labels.

Not only will you find warning labels on nearly every product inside a Walmart, a warning label is on the outside, to warn you that the brick and glass has been "linked to" cancer.
Chocolate Is A Treat - It's Not An 'Antioxidant' Or Anything Except Valentine's Day Candy

Chocolate Is A Treat - It's Not An 'Antioxidant' Or Anything Except Valentine's Day Candy

Feb 11 2025 | comment(s)

Ignore epidemiology claims that chocolate is healthy. It is not, claiming it is requires the same suspect correlation that "suggests" weedkillers causes human cancer and acupuncture prevents COVID-19. No science involved. Mars, Incorporated was funding the Chair in Nutrition at UC Davis when a lot of those claims came out and while it's not the case that academics are creating results-for-hire any more than industry scientists are, it is the case that government and companies only fund people whose work they like.
When Told Lower Incomes Mean Less School Funding, College Students Become More Liberal

When Told Lower Incomes Mean Less School Funding, College Students Become More Liberal

Feb 07 2025 | comment(s)

So many people want to move to the United States of America because virtually anyone who arrives legally can start a business with little problem and get rich.

A lot of people born in the US would rather be born in a place where they can never get rich but more things are free for the poor. They're not wrong, normal human psychological variation means most people would rather not compete if given a choice. That is seen all across the animal kingdom.
Yellowstone Wolves: Good For Urban Environmentalists, Bad For Everyone Else

Yellowstone Wolves: Good For Urban Environmentalists, Bad For Everyone Else

Feb 06 2025 | comment(s)

A new analysis claims that crown volume of stream-side shrubs is a key metric for evaluating trophic cascade strength and they attribute the 1,500% increase in a small number of sites to increased numbers of wolves.

The data they used were collected from 20 streams during the years 2001 to 2020 and they note the aboveground biomass increase is due to a lot fewer elk, which was caused by a lot more wolves. "Balance of nature" wins.
Hims Telehealth Company Under Fire For Super Bowl Ad

Hims Telehealth Company Under Fire For Super Bowl Ad

Feb 06 2025 | comment(s)

Hims Inc., rebranded as Hims  &  Hers Health, Inc. after they went public in 2020, began as a telehealth company for erectile dysfunction and hair loss products.

No real issue there, the products are well-established and a phone call or website consultation is more convenient and far faster than visiting a doctor's office in the modern Obamacare milieu. It's entering the compounded glucagon-like peptide 1 agonists (GLP-1) injections market that got them new scrutiny.
In Finland, Farmers Are Now Forced To Yell At Geese To Try And Keep Crops From Being Ruined

In Finland, Farmers Are Now Forced To Yell At Geese To Try And Keep Crops From Being Ruined

Feb 04 2025 | comment(s)

While talking to farmers in Illinois on September 25th, 1956 who were concerned about increased government encroachment and regulations brought on by the descendants of eugenicists who had founded "environmental" groups like Sierra Club to promote their beliefs(1), President Dwight D. Eisenhower told them,  “Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field”