We have a really dangerous anti-science problem in America and it involves short-term, pressing issues that can harm people right now - food and medicine. In America, those beliefs are primarily among rich, educated progressives: as Seth Mnookin recounted at NPR and I mentioned in Science Left Behind, you can draw a circle around a Whole Foods and find a whole host of crazy notions about...
read more"The X-Files" resumes tonight and if, like me, you might give it a try, here are 5 good episodes to watch in advance. I was able to sort through a lot of shows thanks to a blizzard in New York City, which kept me inside and was not accompanied by losing electricity. My non-loss is your gain. read...
read moreUS Right To Know, an anti-GMO front group funded by organic food corporations, has made no secret of its willingness to smear and bully and libel scientists and journalists and anyone else who stands up to their campaigns of fear and doubt about the competitors of their clients.They are Deniers For Hire in the purest sense. A short while ago one of their advisors, Lisa Graves, who runs the...
read moreUS Right To Know, an anti-GMO front group funded by organic food corporations, has made no secret of its willingness to smear and bully and libel scientists and journalists and anyone else who stands up to their campaigns of fear and doubt about the competitors of their clients.They are Deniers For Hire in the purest sense. A short while ago one of their advisors, Lisa Graves, who runs the...
read moreTo anti-science hippies, 'drink this pesticide if it is so safe' is the kind of mic-dropping burn that resonates with the sub-literate primates who don't understand the basics of toxicology and buy supplements and deny vaccines.Drinking any pesticide, organic or synthetic, is an IQ test, not a science experiment. Unless you are writing at whatever GM Watch is.read...
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