Defenders of the modern, hyper-aggressive EPA claim everything they do is designed to keep toxic sludge out of the water but their latest effort is likely doing more harm than good.Their big concern about Americans harming the ozone layer now? Asthma...
read moreAtheists can't figure out religious people. It shouldn't be that hard, religious people only believe in one more God than atheists, so they aren't all that different, while atheists only believe in one fewer God than religious people, who don't believe in a lot of other Gods, so they aren't that different either. Yet they just don't get along.There may be new hope for understanding and...
read moreA poll on Mashable, unscientific but a talking point anyway, found nearly 75-percent saying they "hate" the Facebook news feed changes. read...
read moreIt isn't often I will agree with Club Sierra...I mean Sierra Club - if you have ever been to their offices you will know how easy it is to confuse the terms.They spend so much time latching onto whatever cause will generate donations it's hard to know if they believe in anything, much less science, and it can make you nuts. Like Greenpeace, their baffling 'trust scientists when it comes to...
read moreIn early July, Karolinska University Hospital issued a press release about a successful trachea transplant using synthetic tissue. It got mainstream media coverage and it was interesting, I thought, but evolutionary and not revolutionary. We had covered a Lancet paper on much the same thing in 2008. But in the course of a correspondence with a media rep she noted something...
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