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 Jul 25, 2022 | Comments Off on Survey Results Show That For Many, Vaping Was A Fad And Not An Addiction
Vaping devices, e.g. the unfortunately named e-cigarettes, were a valuable tool for smoking cessation and harm reduction, with better results in ending smoking that nicotine patches and gums.Then suddenly they were everywhere, a market so large that a tobacco company whose primary business was cigarettes spent billions for a small stake in Juul, which had become the leader in vaping products. Now...
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Posted on Jun 2, 2022 | Comments Off on Stop Eating Affordable Vegetables, It’s Just Too Dangerous. Claims Organic Industry Funded Paper
There is some produce advice coming from the activist camp yet again, but what they are selling is rotten.
A recent paper senior author'ed by famed organic industry proponent Dr. Michael N. Antoniou raised an alarm about insecticide
and herbicide residues found in the fecal microbiome of 65 twins in the United
Kingdom. The big problem with it is that it preys on modern science journalists not...
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Posted on Apr 1, 2022 | Comments Off on Secondhand Marijuana Smoke Risk
Though nearly everyone recognizes that smoking cigarettes is a known carcinogen, many marijuana users think marijuana smoke is safe. They may not realize it is inhaling the smoke, not that the smoke is from one plant or another, that is the worry. Nicotine or THC is as harmless as caffeine, but when combusted in a leaf with paper and inhaled, everything becomes harmful. Including marijuana...
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Posted on Nov 11, 2021 | Comments Off on Military Veteran Deaths Went Up In 2020 As You’d Expect, But Less Than The General Population
Suicides and other mental health issues, as well as general deaths, went up during the pandemic in 2020 and veterans were not excluded. But they fared better than the general population, which is good news for Veteran's Day.read more
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Posted on Nov 3, 2021 | Comments Off on Suspect Correlation: Eating Alone Linked To Heart Attacks In Women
If we want people to trust disease epidemiologists during the COVID-19 pandemic - and the next pandemic after that, since this was the third one of just coronavirus in 17 years - then we have to start holding suspect epidemiologists accountable.read more
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