In 2010, when Dr. Paul Muizelaar of U.C. Davis began performing illegal experimental treatments on terminally ill brain cancer patients, he earned over $800,000. (1)That's pretty good money for an academic, especially while we are enduring the political theater of universities canceling core curriculum classes to try and pressure taxpayers into agreeing to tax increases if we 'care about...
read moreThe European Commission, which controls one of the world's largest science budgets, has backed calls for free public access to taxpayer-funded research. Reed Elsevier is not thrilled."Taxpayers should not have to pay twice for scientific research and they need seamless access to raw data," said Neelie Kroes, European Commission vice-president for the Digital Agenda, though Kroes does not...
read moreHave you noticed a huge increase in the price of pork chops or bacon or hot dogs?Neither have I, despite the fact that sow gestation stalls, or crates or whatever you may call them in your neighborhood, are disappearing. The stalls are basically where pregnant sows are kept. Anti-science hippies who are always looking for ammunition in their war on human food contend big business uses these...
read moreMassachusetts environmentalists are celebrating approval of designated “no-discharge” areas which bans boat sewage along nearly the entire coast of the state. Seriously, they should. Everyone knows if you pass a law against something, it disappears. This is why obesity will disappear in New York City once they make Big Gulps illegal. In those areas the [...]
read moreA giant herd of cattle are not huddled together to get away from evil oil companies or other things that have overwhelmingly improved the ecosystem in Alaska, these Northwest caribou are avoiding nature.Namely, mosquitoes.
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