Vani Hari, an earnest unqualified pundit who sells a lot of stuff on her website, implies you will look like her if you don't eat foods she cannot pronounce. And now she has gone after pizza.No big deal. Whereas people who eat at Subway are easily duped and thus it was simple to get Subway to not use a completely harmless additive, the pizza market is another issue entirely. read...
read moreNot horrified by PETA's graphic images of food processing or titillated by their penchant for exploiting naked women enough to stop eating meat?The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have opened a new front in their culture war; they have declared that increased Autism Spectrum Diagnoses are due to milk. read...
read moreThere is a discovery out there that has shown some success with multiple sclerosis, with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS - Lou Gehrig's Disease), and has even improved the function of aging hearts – but despite all that, you have probably never heard of it. No, this is not a story about how a revolutionary breakthrough got bought up by some giant corporation and stuck in a warehouse to...
read moreIn American politics there is a comfortable détente about which science craziness to allow under the big tents - Republicans are okay if their members won't accept evidence of climate science or evolution while Democrats are fine if their voters don't accept the science behind food, energy and medicine. read...
read moreSid Salter, director of public affairs at Mississippi State University, writes in the Jackson Clarion-Ledger that labels have gone too far. read...
read moreIn mainstream media, everywhere from Fox News to Time (and here on Science 2.0, though with a little more skepticism) a read...
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