Posted on Feb 26, 2025 | Comments Off on PFAS: Environmental Working Group Is Thrilled Republican Allies Are in Power
With new analyses created by their employees to 'detect' chemicals in water, plus their war on seed oils, Environmental Working Group have joined Natural Resources Defense Council in becoming Republican allies.Welcome to politicization of science in the 2020s. Just a few years ago, Republicans were the enemy of anti-science activists, but now the Trump administration has an environmental...
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Posted on Feb 24, 2025 | Comments Off on Scientization Of Politics: Seed Oils Are The Latest Nocebo Fad
You may suddenly have read a lot about the dangers of seed oils - e.g. sunflower and canola oil - and wonder why this is just being discovered. The harms weren't recently discovered, they've still never been discovered. They're not harmful so nothing has changed except the demographic criticizing them flipped from endorsing them. They were never healthier for you either, despite claims by...
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Posted on Feb 18, 2025 | Comments Off on Anti-Science Epidemiologists Have A New Friend In Government
In September, epidemiologists out to scare people about homeopathic - "detectable" - levels of pesticides published a paper hoping to get journalists promoting fear and doubt about agriculture.Being the opposition to science in academia is a good place to be. They can get a publication to check off that annual box and nothing much will change. They won't get any blame.read...
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Posted on Feb 13, 2025 | Comments Off on Prop 65 Is A California Gimmick That Raises Prices For The Poor
Proposition 65 was a voter referendum that stated if a chemical was correlated to cancer, it needed to have a cancer warning label. Lawyers who were behind the public relations effort to get it passed assured consumers it would not be abused. Yet a few years later, epidemiologists inside the once-credible International Agency for Research on Cancer in France set out to gain "expert witness"...
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Posted on Feb 11, 2025 | Comments Off on Chocolate Is A Treat – It’s Not An ‘Antioxidant’ Or Anything Except Valentine’s Day Candy
Ignore epidemiology claims that chocolate is healthy. It is not, claiming it is requires the same suspect correlation that "suggests" weedkillers causes human cancer and acupuncture prevents COVID-19. No science involved. Mars, Incorporated was funding the Chair in Nutrition at UC Davis when a lot of those claims came out and while it's not the case that academics are creating results-for-hire...
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