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Posts by Hank Campbell

Contrary To The Poltical Narrative, A Lot Of Government Science Funding Doesn’t Go To Science

Contrary To The Poltical Narrative, A Lot Of Government Science Funding Doesn’t Go To Science

Every day we read a new headline warning us that American leadership is about to erode because of budget cuts to 'science.'We have been told tuberculosis was about to be cured but a grant got cut and, gosh darn it, now Republicans ruined it. We have been told we'll be set back for generations. If you don't want to spend a lot of time reading more, I can tell you plainly that after two decades of...

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Ohio State Endorses Probiotic Yogurt – Using Mouse Studies

A new paper from Ohio State University can be considered a giant endorsement for yogurt that makes you poop - but unfortunately for giddy food corporations hoping to gain some scientific credibility it is only in mice, and therefore EXPLORATORY.Because mice are not little people.You just wouldn't know that from the school's press release, which alleges pesticides are ruining your microbiome and...

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UC Davis Epidemiologists Out To Scare New Mothers Again

UC Davis Epidemiologists Out To Scare New Mothers Again

In the modern era we can detect anything in anything. Being able to detect in parts per billion, trillion and even quadrillion means that if an epidemiologist can "correlate" a chemical to harm in a spreadsheet, someone raising money opposing science can weaponize the result.A new paper finding that they can detect chemicals linked to harm in rats with the urine of 201 preschool kids is a new...

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You Don’t Need Government Food Bans For Health, Provide Structure And Choice For Kids

If you need any new evidence that science is just another arm of politics, look to the switch in the Republican party once President Donald Trump embraced former Natural Resources Defense Council lawyer, friend of Obama, and anti-science zealot Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.(1)read...

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Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarers – Bulky, Beautiful, Limited

Once a decade, I buy a pair of good sunglasses. I didn't know I was doing that, it wasn't intentional, I only realized it when I bought a pair of Persol sunglasses in 2005 that my wife mentioned it seemed to be a pattern. It really wasn't. I still had a pair of Aviators from the 1980s and she bought me a pair of sunglasses in the 1990s so it wasn't really a trend, it was coincidence. In 2015 or...

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