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Posts made in May, 2013

Social Psych For Burgers – Men Who Prefer Grilled Burgers Are More Attractive

Social and evolutionary psychology studies get a large share of media attention despite being primarily based on surveys of psychology undergraduate students.It was only a matter of time before others mimicked that process to add their own claims of scientific validity - and so Burger King has taken its war with McDonald's to a new level with a study finding that men who prefer grilled burgers...

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Cheerio, Anti-Science Hippies

The thousands of clueless hippies who hijacked the Cheerios Facebook page to demand that General Mills get behind putting GMO warning labels on food are disappointed the company isn't convinced any of them buy Cheerios anyway.

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Twinkies Are Back – New And Improved, Minus One Ingredient

When the Hostess company, which made Twinkies – that terrible confection and butt of jokes no one ate until they became a political hot button issue – went bankrupt in November of last year, the blame fell along predictable lines. The union blamed the incompetence of management while management blamed union costs. You’ve heard this all before. We used to have steel in America...

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Food and Chemical Toxicology Paper Claiming Bt Is Toxic In Mouse Blood Withdrawn – And Reappears Elsewhere

A paper in Food and Chemical Toxicology, published in Elsevier, claiming that Bacillus thuringiensis showed toxic effects in the blood of Swiss albino mice has been withdrawn.Citation: Mezzomo BP, Miranda-Vilela AL, de Souza Freire I, Barbosa LC, Portilho FA, Lacava ZG, Grisolia CK, 'WITHDRAWN: Effects of oral administration of Bacillus thuringiensis as spore-crystal strains Cry1Aa, Cry1Ab,...

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NIMH Delivers A Kill Shot To DSM-5

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is distancing itself from the the American Psychiatric Association and its upcoming Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5).While they acknowledge that the goal of DSM "is to provide a common language for describing psychopathology" they are no longer convinced that approach has value if we are going to solve 21st century...

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