The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a CRISPR-based treatment for sickle cell disease, an inherited disorder that distorts the shape of red blood cells and disrupts the function of hemoglobin, the protein that carries and distributes oxygen throughout the body.read...
read moreGoing into his final year in politics, California Governor Gavin Newsom is banning everything he can to create a legacy among anti-science progressives. He recently created a black market for Skittles by banning brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylparaben, and red dye 3 because, wait for it, Europeans progressives did.Given that the coast of California hates science, they hated...
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Halloween is the time of year when you are most likely to find out your significant other is a vampire - or vampire hunter. Sure, vampires can't be real and never have been, there can't really be hunters for those any more than there are ghost hunters, but History Channel is stuffed with people hunting ghosts, so let's light a science candle rather than curse your supernatural darkness and tell...
read moreThe trial lawyers going after Monsanto are cheering that a jury 'awarded' them $175 million - but they will never see most of it.Convincing a jury of something is easy, especially if it is an anti-science pro-corporate-conspiracy city like San Francisco, or Philadelphia. Pennsylvania is stuck with a Senator who wears hoodies to Congress, only because Democrats in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh...
read moreHalloween is just a few days away so prior to worrying about razor blades in candy or kids getting run down in the streets you may want to think about pumpkins.They are full of toxic chemicals. Even organic pumpkins.Andy Brunning, of the Compound Interest site, made this graphic for Chemical & Engineering News, but they have nothing to do with this article about the dangers of...
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