It's always easy to be critical of government, but while the new administration cut grants for sociologists who want to "study" why people still play Everquest 2, it also boosted funding for the National Animal Health Laboratory Network, and programs like the National Animal Disease Preparedness and Response Program and the National Animal Vaccine and Veterinary Countermeasures Bank.read...
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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...
read moreA 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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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...
read moreIf 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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