Posted on Oct 12, 2015 | Comments Off on Gustatory System And Personality: Bitter Taste Preferences Predict Sadism
Bitter taste preferences might be associated with antisocial personality traits, finds an analysis of two US samples (N = 953, mean age = 35.65 years, 48% female). Participants self-reported taste preferences and answered personality questionnaires assessing Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism, everyday sadism, trait aggression, and the Big Five factors of personality. Result: Bitter taste...
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Posted on Oct 9, 2015 | Comments Off on Another Mainstream Science Publication Calls Out USRTK And Its Media Enablers
Nature Biotechnology, which by the name obviously supports agricultural science, has come late to the party defending scientists against the icy chill of bullying tactics by the US Right To Know organization, which is itself funded by organic food corporations and has a director that is the well-known political operative behind the PR group that runs the SourceWatch advocacy site.But it's never...
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Posted on Oct 9, 2015 | Comments Off on Coral Worth $10 Trillion In Pretend Money
A pilot Earth Index commissioned by BBC Earth using data from the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) sets a new standard for estimating pretend money. It values coral at $10 trillion for the global economy. Trees are worth even more, at $16 trillion, which means the pretend value of trees are almost as much as all of the real value of the people...
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Posted on Oct 8, 2015 | Comments Off on Mother Jones Hates Scientists – And Their Bias Shows
In an effort to keep the pressure on scientists who accept the overwhelming consensus on genetically modified organisms (GMOs), the hard-left political magazine Mother Jones has written another article using emails provided to the organic lobbying organization US Right To Know(1) to undermine science it has chosen not to accept.
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Posted on Oct 5, 2015 | Comments Off on Process labels: Bridging the informational gap or confusing consumers?
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In the early days of food labeling and regulations, it was just about honesty. If you go to buy mayonnaise, you shouldn't have to wonder if it is mayonnaise (1), but then it became a marketing distinction. Better ingredients. Then it became self-identification with a world view.But at what point do these process labels - organic, kosher, natural, shade grown, do more harm for public understand of...
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