Social authoritarians like to make people more reliant on government and then control what people do with the government assistance they are now reliant upon. It keeps those in control in positions of power. The most recent example is with government funding for food coming attached to strings telling people what they can buy with the money.read...
read moreCalifornia government has a new proposal that could ban thousands of chemicals, even if they are natural.California is, of course, famously anti-science. The reason lawyers who wanted to sue over weedkillers filed in San Francisco is because it is the most anti-science city in America's most anti-science state. And it worked. Juries readily believe that plants are just tiny green people so a...
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Raw milk is known to be 700X more likely to cause a foodborne illness. Since evangelists for bacteria in food often hide illnesses to protect their beliefs it may be even higher.Cheese will be safer, if it is aged long enough. Which means you are not dealing with a company that is in a financial panic. Like RAW FARM-brand raw dairy products.When Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was a lawyer for Natural...
read moreThe Usual Suspects of the anti-science movement, Center for Biological Diversity(1), Environmental Working Group(2) and more, are back in court to try and force California to accept that money is magic and rich homeowners with solar panels should be paid for electricity they send to the grid - at full retail price.It sounds ridiculous. Imagine if a customer buys a vegetable your farm grows says...
read moreThe electric car industry is held back by reliance on conventional energy. Despite spending trillions of dollars on mandates and subsidies, solar and wind alternatives have made little difference in the share of energy filled by natural gas and oil. Some of that is economics. A subsidy prevents innovation because it props up the status quo, and environmentalists and the politicians they...
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