Posted on Jul 13, 2014 | Comments Off on Is Organic Food More Nutritious And Safer Than Conventional? Reviewing A Recent Systematic Review
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A recent review in the British Journal of Nutrition concluded that the nutritional quality and safety of organic food was higher than conventional food. Fruits, vegetables, and grains, organic versions were better in all ways than conventional farming, they determined.
Organic food had fewer pesticides, a much different result than other studies, and also had more important nutrients, also a...
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Posted on Jul 11, 2014 | Comments Off on Will David Cameron Convince AstraZeneca Not To Exit Antibiotics?
AstraZeneca has probably the best antibiotic pipeline in the industry. It's also a business they no longer want to be in.Their departure would follow on the heels of Pfizer exiting that segment, leaving GlaxoSmithKline and Merck. Why? Well, pharmaceuticals in general in crisis. I have likened it to the US steel industry in the 1970s. Critics think if they are still making money, it...
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Posted on Jul 10, 2014 | Comments Off on Penny Stock Peer Review
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Not the JVC peer review ring, an actual gambling ring. Credit: China Daily
It's something of a mild joke in science circles - you can figure out who is peer-reviewing your paper by looking for the common author in the citations you 'missed' in your submission.It was only a matter of time before peer review cabals became an actual strategy somewhere.
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Posted on Jul 10, 2014 | Comments Off on Kudos To ACSH For Best Use Of ‘Encomium’ Today – Oh, And Dr. Bruce Ames
Dr. Bruce Ames, one of the early heroes of the environmental movement and creator of the Ames Test, which showed how to use in vitro testing to determine if chemicals could cause DNA damage and thus cancer (sparing a lot of animals), went on to rank all kinds of chemicals in order of risk.Thus, he was an early voice of sanity in the post-DDT world, where activists tried to convince people there...
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Posted on Jul 8, 2014 | Comments Off on When Is Commuting By Airplane Okay? When You Work For Greenpeace
Nothing is stranger than watching environmental journalists rationalize why they are flying off to yet another conference on climate change. They have to weigh it carefully, they say, and agonize over it, but eventually they determine the 'relationships' are worth the emissions damage they cause.Then they will munch on catered food and write articles insisting business people should not fly so...
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