Posted on May 8, 2014 | Comments Off on Egyptians Had Heart Disease AND Cancer – Time To Stop Calling Those Modern Lifestyle Diseases
Nothing brings out woo speculation like health issues.Health books and fad diets are easy sales because everyone wants a short cut and, on the other side, pundits can engage in some causalation and insist they can cure those things you already have.Diet faddists insist, for example, that no one had heart disease or cancer way back when. It was a reasonable guess. Even with the prevalence of guns...
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Posted on May 7, 2014 | Comments Off on Atrazine And The Forever War On Science
I'll tell you up front, I am not a big fan of chemicals.It's not that I have chemophobia, or any science-phobia, I instead have that special sort of elitism that is available to people who have just been lucky enough to not need chemicals. I don't even like to take aspirin and I have that luxury because I haven't needed to take any drugs for a recurring condition, so it's really easy for me to...
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Posted on May 6, 2014 | Comments Off on Food Activists Declare Synthetic Biology In League With Lucifer
If you want to find a hotbed of anti-science sentiment, sure, you could go to a cigar bar full of Republicans and mention that the temperature outside must be up because of global warming - and you would get lots of predictable responses, but you would not get someone claiming you were on the IPCC because they remembered reading your name somewhere this one time.If you want to see true...
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Posted on May 6, 2014 | Comments Off on You’re Probably Not Gluten Sensitive
Despite the rarity of celiac disease, a growing number of people in the Western world are adopting a gluten-free lifestyle. In Australia, for example, for every person who's diagnosed with celiac disease, there are 20 others eating gluten-free food. Many of the people who pursue a gluten-free diet out of choice believe themselves to be gluten-sensitive.
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Posted on May 5, 2014 | Comments Off on Night Of The Johnstown Flood
The Johnstown Flood was such a monumental, yet often forgotten, event that when Bruce Springsteen referenced the song "Night of the Johnstown Flood" in a song on his 1982 "Nebraska" album, fans scrambled to find out what the song was. It didn't exist, but Springsteen felt like it should.In 1968, David McCullough, soon on his way to two Pulitzer Prizes and a place as America's foremost modern...
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