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The Biden Administration Should Eliminate EPA’s Strange New Unscientific Approach To Pesticide Evaluations

Posted by on Feb 16, 2021 in Chemistry | Comments Off on The Biden Administration Should Eliminate EPA’s Strange New Unscientific Approach To Pesticide Evaluations

Imagine you hire a plumber and he needs to work on your plumbing and instead of coming over to fix that he sends his cousin who owns a lawn service.

That is analogous to what is happening at EPA regarding a common herbicide (the second most popular in the U.S.) named atrazine.

There is nothing wrong with it scientifically, it is causing no harm, but EPA is still going to hand it over to a group like the US Fish and Wildlife Services and let them just decide whether or not it might harm endangered species. No science needed.

They are even blaming it for extinctions that occurred nearly 50 years ago.

The Forever War on Science story has been in development...forever...but this is the first time they introduced time travel.

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The Biden Administration Should Eliminate EPA’s Strange New Unscientific Approach To Pesticide Evaluations

Posted by on Feb 16, 2021 in Chemistry | Comments Off on The Biden Administration Should Eliminate EPA’s Strange New Unscientific Approach To Pesticide Evaluations

Imagine you hire a plumber and he needs to work on your plumbing and instead of coming over to fix that he sends his cousin who owns a lawn service.

That is analogous to what is happening at EPA regarding a common herbicide (the second most popular in the U.S.) named atrazine.

There is nothing wrong with it scientifically, it is causing no harm, but EPA is still going to hand it over to a group like the US Fish and Wildlife Services and let them just decide whether or not it might harm endangered species. No science needed.

They are even blaming it for extinctions that occurred nearly 50 years ago.

The Forever War on Science story has been in development...forever...but this is the first time they introduced time travel.

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The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic Had Up To Four Waves – The Last Was 18 Months Nearly 2 Years Later

Posted by on Feb 12, 2021 in Immunology | Comments Off on The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic Had Up To Four Waves – The Last Was 18 Months Nearly 2 Years Later

Do you think food is medicine? While Whole Foods imagery touted that in 2019, the coronavirus pandemic that began in Wuhan later that year punctured efforts to convince the public that health is a moral or economic issue - you owe it to your kids to buy overpriced food. SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 pandemic showed that eating expensive onions won't save anyone from anything. 

What may help save people is remembering the past rather than wishful thinking about the present. In this case, looking back at the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic which killed far more than COVID-19.

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Most Don’t Need Social Authoritarianism When It Comes To The Environment, Asking Works Just As Well

Posted by on Feb 11, 2021 in Psychology | Comments Off on Most Don’t Need Social Authoritarianism When It Comes To The Environment, Asking Works Just As Well

If a tourist doesn't know messing around with a coral reef is bad, they may try to touch them or pet turtles, but after being told by someone local that it has risks for the nature they are there to see they far less likely to do so.

A new paper found that such "nudges" works well. Which would mean we often don't need government 'ignore of the law is no excuse' type shaming policies to change behavior.

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Most Don’t Need Social Authoritarianism When It Comes To The Environment, Asking Works Just As Well

Posted by on Feb 11, 2021 in Psychology | Comments Off on Most Don’t Need Social Authoritarianism When It Comes To The Environment, Asking Works Just As Well

If a tourist doesn't know messing around with a coral reef is bad, they may try to touch them or pet turtles, but after being told by someone local that it has risks for the nature they are there to see they far less likely to do so.

A new paper found that such "nudges" works well. Which would mean we often don't need government 'ignore of the law is no excuse' type shaming policies to change behavior.

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It’s Just Correlation, But Linking Coffee To Reduced Heart Disease Is At Least Delicious Wishful Thinking

Posted by on Feb 10, 2021 in Public Health | Comments Off on It’s Just Correlation, But Linking Coffee To Reduced Heart Disease Is At Least Delicious Wishful Thinking

There are a few known risk factors for heart disease; age is the big one, and then genetics and smoking. Everything else is instead a risk factor for a risk factor for heart disease or even more circumstantial. So butter was a risk factor for cholesterol which was a risk factor for high blood pressure which was a risk factor for heart disease.

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It’s Just Correlation, But Linking Coffee To Reduced Heart Disease Is At Least Delicious Wishful Thinking

Posted by on Feb 10, 2021 in Public Health | Comments Off on It’s Just Correlation, But Linking Coffee To Reduced Heart Disease Is At Least Delicious Wishful Thinking

There are a few known risk factors for heart disease; age is the big one, and then genetics and smoking. Everything else is instead a risk factor for a risk factor for heart disease or even more circumstantial. So butter was a risk factor for cholesterol which was a risk factor for high blood pressure which was a risk factor for heart disease.

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Dams Are The Largest Source Of Hydroelectric Power And Water For Farmers – Environmentalist Should Stop Opposing Them

Posted by on Feb 8, 2021 in Energy | Comments Off on Dams Are The Largest Source Of Hydroelectric Power And Water For Farmers – Environmentalist Should Stop Opposing Them

At the turn of the 20th century Carrie Nation smashed up a saloon in Kansas, gold was discovered in Alaska, and New York City's boundaries became set with the inclusion of Queens and Staten Island.

America had five new states and they had a big problem.(1)

Water. 

Homesteaders wanted to move out west, and government wanted to help, but there was a water issue. When rain was happening things were fine but nature is fickle. Weather was less predictable then and even if you lived near a river, there was no guarantee you'd have water.

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The World Has Spent $2.6 Trillion On Solar And Wind Power Subsidies – And Gotten Little Energy

Posted by on Feb 5, 2021 in Energy | Comments Off on The World Has Spent $2.6 Trillion On Solar And Wind Power Subsidies – And Gotten Little Energy

The Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2019 report stated that in the previous 10 years the world had spent $2.6 trillion on solar and wind power subsidies - which they framed as a good thing. Since we need to get billions off wood and dung, the largest sources of pollution, that so much money only led to 1,650 gigawatts(GW) of energy should have environmentalists concerned.

Instead of focusing on how we can get energy, and therefore water and sanitation. to the poorest, activists continue to create propaganda about natural gas and nuclear while claiming solar and wind are ready.

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The World Has Spent $2.6 Trillion On Solar And Wind Power Subsidies – And Gotten Little Energy

Posted by on Feb 5, 2021 in Energy | Comments Off on The World Has Spent $2.6 Trillion On Solar And Wind Power Subsidies – And Gotten Little Energy

The Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2019 report stated that in the previous 10 years the world had spent $2.6 trillion on solar and wind power subsidies - which they framed as a good thing. Since we need to get billions off wood and dung, the largest sources of pollution, that so much money only led to 1,650 gigawatts(GW) of energy should have environmentalists concerned.

Instead of focusing on how we can get energy, and therefore water and sanitation. to the poorest, activists continue to create propaganda about natural gas and nuclear while claiming solar and wind are ready.

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