A California lawmaker wants to ban paper receipts - those annoying long things that immediately get lost in a grocery bag - but instead of promoting the legitimate reason to get rid of them, they are useless, he invoked chemical scaremongering.read...
read moreThe year 2018 began much like every year does, full of promise and hope. And it ended like almost every year does, jaded and weakened by compromise. read more
read moreThe year 2018 began much like every year does, full of promise and hope. And it ended like almost every year does, jaded and weakened by compromise. read more
read moreDoes the world need another sweetener? With debates raging over cane sugar, corn sugar, beet sugar, raw sugar, and numerous zero-calorie alternatives to sugar, new products would seem to be just another thing for Center for Science in the Public Interest to manufacture lawsuits about.The debate may be why Brazzein, from the fruit of the West African Pentadiplandra brazzeana plant, never got any...
read moreIn Science Left Behind I showed that in America it was easy to accurately correlate beliefs about science to political viewpoints. If you believed in psychics, witchcraft, organic food or homeopathy, statistically I could be determine how you voted. If you believed in GMOs and vaccines I also knew how you voted. But everyone hates the word "chemical."That is why it is fertile ground for...
read moreMarta Venier, an environmentalist at Indiana University, recently teamed up with a Michigan activist group to "test" car seats and declared they had toxic chemicals.Obviously that is media clickbait but if you are reading here, you want to know science truth and will leave the fake news to Mother Jones. So let's get to itIn 2018, we can detect anything in anythingread...
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