Posted on Dec 14, 2018 | Comments Off on Organic Consumers Association Continues To Be The Embarrassing Stepchild Of The Organic Industry
Organic Consumers Association has opened a new front in their culture war against science - now they say organic food itself is too science-y.Don't they represent organic farmers? No. Unlike Organic Trade Association, the mainstream trade group created to help organic corporations gain market share, Organic Consumers Association is a fringe group that was created to tear down science they oppose...
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Posted on Dec 13, 2018 | Comments Off on Probiotics For Bipolar Disorder? The FDA Really, Really, Really Has Not Evaluated That Claim
As many as three million Americans, an alarming one percent of the U.S. population, get a diagnosis of bipolar disorder each year. That is a fantastic amount, bordering on unbelievable, 12,000X as many gun murders that will occur. If being "bipolar" is over-diagnosed then it may well be that something as simple as yogurt will fix it. And that is the claim of a pilot study unveiled today...
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Posted on Dec 12, 2018 | Comments Off on 700 US Women Still Die Each Year From Causes Related To Pregnancy – Congress Wants To Know Why
Over 700 women in the US die per year from (sometimes unknown) causes that involve pregnancy or childbirth and the same Republican Congress we are often told doesn't care about pregnant women just devoted $60 million to finding out why it's happening. Good for them. The bill defines a "pregnancy-associated death" as death while pregnant or with a year after. A "pregnancy-related death"...
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Posted on Dec 12, 2018 | Comments Off on Superhero Science: Ant-Man And The Wasp Shouldn’t Be Able To Breathe At Insect Size, Here’s Why They Can
At insect size, miniature superheroes Ant-Man and The Wasp should be dead in minutes. Since they did not train on the top of Mt. Everest, they would be unable to overcome the atmospheric density they would have to face at tiny size, and that's without getting into the metabolism issues.Ant-Man clearly didn't have a lot of scientific thought that went into him when he was created by a combination...
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Posted on Dec 12, 2018 | Comments Off on Brazzein Is All Natural, 0 Calorie, 2000 Times Sweeter Than Sugar – Now It Could Be Cheap To Produce
Does the world need another sweetener? With debates raging over cane sugar, corn sugar, beet sugar, raw sugar, and numerous zero-calorie alternatives to sugar, new products would seem to be just another thing for Center for Science in the Public Interest to manufacture lawsuits about.The debate may be why Brazzein, from the fruit of the West African Pentadiplandra brazzeana plant, never got any...
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