Posted on Sep 19, 2022 | Comments Off on Don’t Be A Charles About Science: The New Prince Of Wales Should Divest From Mystical Organic Beliefs
England is in crisis. They lost a beloved figurehead this month but for decades prior were losing scientific ground. If you look for the home of the modern organic food and anti-vaccine movements, you find their nexus in 1990s England.The primary royal behind those beliefs is now King Charles III. read...
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Posted on Sep 19, 2022 | Comments Off on Don’t Be A Charles About Science: The New Prince Of Wales Should Divest From Mystical Organic Beliefs
England is in crisis. They lost a beloved figurehead this month but for decades prior were losing scientific ground. If you look for the home of the modern organic food and anti-vaccine movements, you find their nexus in 1990s England.The primary royal behind those beliefs is now King Charles III. read...
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Posted on Sep 16, 2022 | Comments Off on Disease Spillover Risk Was Oversimplified During The COVID-19 Pandemic – And It’s A Chronic Problem In Science Journalism
SAR, R0, these are all terms that became part of the pop culture lexicon during the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, because they were used in simplistic fashion they were more helpful for those engaged in wedge politics than the public.Part of the problem can be laid at the feet of social media. COVID-19 was the third coronavirus pandemic of the last 17 years but it was the first to truly...
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Posted on Sep 13, 2022 | Comments Off on Detecting Seafood Fraud Using Chemical Maps
Food fraud is common. Probably 25 percent of imported food with an "organic" label is just conventional food and even in America some organic farmers are just selling regular food. In Europe, everyone knew that Russia was not magically producing all of the organic food they were selling to France and Germany so those companies could pretend it works to feed the world.read...
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Posted on Sep 12, 2022 | Comments Off on Infertility Was A Problem In The 19th Century, And Still Is Today In Scandinavia
It is something we have all heard; educated, wealthy people who don't want to have kids, for various reasons. They are letting culture of the future be created by someone else. It is common to be voluntary now but in the past it was not a choice.Demographers recently looked at the SkellefteƄ region in northern Sweden (since the work of digitizing population data from the 19th century on had...
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