Science & Society

How Proposition 65 Made Products More Expensive Even Outside California

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 ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 7 2025 - 10:19am

U.S. Forest Service Thanks Environmentalists For Getting Out Of The Way

It's taken decades but the U.S. Forest Service is finally being allowed to use science in managing America's natural resources. Instead of environmental activists tying up science and the government by using other government regulations and red t ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 16 2025 - 10:29am

Journalists Are Right To Question The Credibility Of IARC

The International Agency for Research on Cancer got a skeptical look from journalists and the general public after epidemiologists in the UN group declared that sausage is as dangerous as cigarette smoking, plutonium, mustard gas and asbestos.     That doe ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 16 2025 - 1:27pm

Reuters Exposes Another IARC Controversy

The International Agency for Research on Cancer, a  United Nations epidemiological group located in France, has been around since the 1960s but only recently got a skeptical look from journalists and the general publi. Because they declared that sausage is ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 21 2025 - 2:58pm