In the wave of articles, blog posts and Tweets that are addressing the impact of the shutdown on science, no one has asked the obvious question: If the president care about science so much, why doesn't he care about science?I have argued that science should be considered a strategic resource, no different than food and oil - yet the President who declared he was going to "restore science to its...
read moreAs a kid, I drank raw milk. It didn't kill me. If I got sick from it, I have no idea, kids get sick from lots of things and just want to get back to playing baseball, we weren't thinking about how we got ill. read...
read moreAs a kid, I drank raw milk. It didn't kill me. If I got sick from it, I have no idea, kids get sick from lots of things and just want to get back to playing baseball, we weren't thinking about how we got ill. read...
read moreFlorida, second only to the entire country of Brazil in global orange juice production and which accounts for over 90 percent of orange juice consumed in the United States, has lost billions of dollars in revenues from a disease that is killing orange trees faster than they can be replaced.Citrus greening has cost Florida's economy an estimated $4.5 billion in lost revenues since 2006, according...
read moreUK environment secretary Owen Paterson believes that Golden Rice could prevent blindness and death among children in poor countries.Anti-science progressives insist most science is dangerous and that biologists are just immoral tinkerers who don't think about safety.
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