The Tennessee Valley Authority couldn't be done today. When it was done, it transformed an area mired in poverty. With affordable electricity, they had water. With water, they could farm. With farming, food became affordable. In a generation, the area was transformed and soon had libraries, schools, and much better quality of life.Environmentalists need to be needed, it is how they feed...
read moreAfter Chris Wild took over the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a UN-funded body in France that looks for statistical links between food/chemicals and cancer, they made a switch in their policies regarding participation; an epidemiologist who had ever consulted for industry could no longer vote on what to label a carcinogen.Even though it was hypocritical - epidemiologists...
read moreIf you are a vegan and opt your child out of a nornal diet, they are going to suffer from malnutrition and you may end up in jail.Crackpot Dr. Paul Saladino, on the other end is just as dangerous, because he claims science doesn't exist so infants should be eating honey, raw milk and even meat.It's nonsense without any empirical foundation but it also exposes a weakness in modern medical...
read moreFor around 15 years, I have joked 'that's why they got sold for a dollar' when nonsense got published in Scientific American and my statement was both funny and factually correct.They've been in decline for a while, their only hope for survival lay in what The Atlantic and Washington Post also got - a rich progressive (well, 'progressive' when it comes to other people paying taxes while they hide...
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President Biden was thrilled when Tesla announced it was creating a Tesla Supercharger network, because electric cars were not legitimate until they stopped needing government hand-outs, and few wanted electric cars until they were sure they could charge them on trips.Which no company wanted to do because there were no government handouts. Tesla believed it could solve the problem, and President...
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