Posted on Feb 5, 2019 | Comments Off on Celery Juice Joins Acai, Quinoa, And Curry In Being Goop Endorsed “Miracle Foods” That Do Nothing
I got a butter shaper for Christmas. I asked for one because I make lot of butter in a mason jar and then just throw it in tupperware but my friends sometimes want butter and it feels a little dismissive to just hand them tupperware.Imagine my disappointment when I read the instructions which stated that it needed to be treated with "Organic Coconut Oil." Butter used to be something almost...
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Posted on Feb 4, 2019 | Comments Off on HPV Vaccine Did Not Lead To Promiscuity In Teenage Girls – Instead, Sexual Activity Declined
When the HPV vaccine was first introduced, there were a number of reasons people listed for being critical. Some were just corporate cynicism - a company that just lost $5 billion in a Vioxx settlement was working its way under the same vaccine halo as polio and smallpox, they said. Others argued that it didn't work very well. And then there was a more subjective cultural claim that protecting...
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Posted on Feb 4, 2019 | Comments Off on How More Environmental Regulations Lead To More CO2 Emissions
Data from 110 counties in 33 states from 1998 to 2014
has found that brute preservation efforts, the 'nature cannot be touched by humans' kind promoted by aggressive environmental groups, leads to more greenhouse gas emissions.read...
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Posted on Feb 4, 2019 | Comments Off on Dear Bud Light: Your Sugar Is Not Superior To Their Sugar – Yeast Can’t Tell And Neither Can Humans
During the Super Bowl, you can predict there will be a lot of beer commercials. As a non-drinker, this always puzzles me - haven't fans already bought their beer? - but advertising is a trillion dollar industry and I instead run a small non-profit so I am certainly not going to debunk capitalism.However, I am going to debunk junk science and their suggestion that because they use one type of...
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Posted on Feb 4, 2019 | Comments Off on Forcing Other Countries To Ban Shark Finning: A Bipartisan Conservation Bill Back In Congress
During the George W. Bush administration, American furniture makers had a crippling disadvantage. While American timber was tightly regulated, foreign supplies had no limitations on where their wood originated from, and could engage in destructive practices and undercut U.S. companies.President Bush solved that by modernizing the Lacey Act, which was the conservation brainchild of...
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