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Independent Voters Decide Elections, But Undecided Voters Least Likely To Vote

Posted by on Oct 1, 2024 in Psychology | Comments Off on Independent Voters Decide Elections, But Undecided Voters Least Likely To Vote

Get-out-the-vote campaigns matter, which is why U.S. political parties encourage those in their tribe to vote by mail long before any controversies can change their mind. Voting is so predictable that about six percent of voters actually decide the election.

Passion motivates, and that is shown by a new survey result which claims that undecided voters are also less likely to vote at all. Either they don't care - one party brags about their stock market gains while the other claims they'll be better for the economy - or they don't believe their vote matters. Like voters in California, unless Democrats are able to overturn the Electoral College.

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Thanks To 2024 PT5, Earth Now Has Two Moons

Posted by on Sep 29, 2024 in Space | Comments Off on Thanks To 2024 PT5, Earth Now Has Two Moons

Starting tonight, and lasting until Thanksgiving, Earth has a second moon.

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Lithium-Ion Batteries Need Help To Enter The 21st Century, Manganese May Be It

Posted by on Sep 25, 2024 in Energy | Comments Off on Lithium-Ion Batteries Need Help To Enter The 21st Century, Manganese May Be It

With a 4th generation nuclear plant finally getting built in the U.S., 30 years after the federal government blocked all advanced energy research, there are so few old environmentalists still in power that alternative energy wishful thinking can make way for science. They aren't going without a fight, though. Solar and wind haven't improved in 50 years but have still gotten $4 trillion in subsidies - all to change conventional energy share by 0.1%.

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Does Air Quality Cause Postpartum Depression?

Posted by on Sep 18, 2024 in Environment | Comments Off on Does Air Quality Cause Postpartum Depression?

New mothers are under a lot of pressure. They are told they have to breastfeed and if they don't, the formula they use may cause their child to have worse grades in school. And if the government shuts down formula factories for no coherent reason and imports aren't allowed because the identical product in Europe hasn't spent a billion dollars and 10 years to get FDA approval, that is a worry.

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The Whiteness Of Boomer Environmentalism May Be Why Lakes In Minority Communities Get Little Attention

Posted by on Sep 10, 2024 in Environment | Comments Off on The Whiteness Of Boomer Environmentalism May Be Why Lakes In Minority Communities Get Little Attention

Prior to the takeover of environmentalism by Earth Day's overt communist malcontents (1) it was devoted to clean water and neighborhoods in cities, where the poorest lived.

To get attention and money from other wealthy elites, it pivoted to rural rivers and streams and minorities were marginalized in the rush to control government that would control conservation and "endangered" species(2) and clean water for people of colors stopped being important.

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Government Created High Insulin Costs, But Here Is How One State Got Around It

Posted by on Sep 9, 2024 in Pharmacology | Comments Off on Government Created High Insulin Costs, But Here Is How One State Got Around It

American health care is expensive as are drugs. Both are due to government involvement. If a company is forced to spend 10 years and a billion extra dollars in clinical trials that don't improve safety, they are just placebos so government can say they held companies "accountable", that raises costs for everyone.

Other countries exploit America that way. They wait until the costs are incurred and approval is set in the US, and then tell the company they can only sell in that country for less. The company has to get its biggest profit in the country that made the success possible and Americans pay the cost so Canada can get cheaper drugs.

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WHO Extends Its Highest Emergency Level For…Monkeypox?

Posted by on Aug 14, 2024 in Public Health | Comments Off on WHO Extends Its Highest Emergency Level For…Monkeypox?

The World Health Organisation, the last major body to accept that COVID-19 was a pandemic, is out in front extending its highest emergency level over, of all things, monkeypox.

We now know WHO held off on declaring COVID-19 an emergency because former President Donald Trump said it was an emergency and we should cut travel from China. Then he instructed FDA to prepare emergency use authorization standards for a vaccine they believed the private sector could create fast if government got out of the way.(1)

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Astrologers Deduce Personalities As Poorly As Anyone Else

Posted by on Aug 12, 2024 in Psychology | Comments Off on Astrologers Deduce Personalities As Poorly As Anyone Else

Astrology is one of those things that makes no sense to literate people. The position of stars a billion light-years away determined your personality, but if you are in the eastern world that personality could be completely different than if you were born 2000 miles west? See: I was a Virgo this morning, now I am a Leo! I totally feel different.

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European Glyphosate Constituents Aren’t From Agriculture, They’re From Laundry Detergent

Posted by on Jul 29, 2024 in Environment | Comments Off on European Glyphosate Constituents Aren’t From Agriculture, They’re From Laundry Detergent

Activists who just happen to take donations from competitors to normal farming - e.g. organic industry trade groups, corporations, and foreign nationals laundering money through offshore donor-advised funds - get paid to claim farming is a problem.(1)

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Just Correlation, Not Science: Ozempic ‘Leads’ To Less Dementia

Posted by on Jul 16, 2024 in Pharmacology | Comments Off on Just Correlation, Not Science: Ozempic ‘Leads’ To Less Dementia

If epidemiologists were held accountable for the high costs, drug shortages, and food and chemical misinformation they cause, nonsense like claiming a type 2 diabetes drug that is popular off-label for weight loss in rich people also prevent dementia would stop.

Yet the reason so many "studies" by epidemiologists are being pushed onto the public now is because it is a fad. Fads, creating them or capitalizing on them, is big business for lawyers on one side and corporations on the other, and epidemiologists capitalize on that.

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