In Trial, E-Cigarettes Work Better For Smoking Cessation Than Big Pharma Products
In a multi-center trial of almost 900 smokers(1), e-cigarettes were shown to be twice as effective as pharmaceutical "gold standard" approaches like gums, lozenges, and patches.The First Photonic Quantum Computer Is About To Come To Market – You Read That Right
If you've read anything about computers for the last 25 years, you've read the hype about quantum computing and how it is going to be better and faster and with less heat and replace conduction-based chips and it will generally be awesome. And then nothing happens outside a lot of arXiv papers and some physics magic published in journals. Quantum computing has basically gotten the best marketing free pass ever, because it is always five years away and no one seems to get cynical.Now it's only two years away.
If You Are Going To Communicate Science, Be Yoda Instead Of Spock
Nothing killed science culture more than Spock from the 1960s television show "Star Trek." He was wildly popular because he was so logical and reasoned. Emotions did not enter into his decisions. Scientists flocked to that mystique and so a whole generation of scholars sought to be dispassionate and data-driven in their interactions with the public.Terrible At Sports? Low Vitamin D Is To Blame. Or Not. Turns Out It’s All Hype
In 2015, I predicted that someone was going to end up in the hospital due to overdoses on supplements.But don't you always say they are useless placebos? a friend asked.
No, they are not all placebos, but products sold as supplements that do something are either actual drugs, like kratom, and thus should be regulated as drugs, they are useless placebos adulterated with actual drugs, like many Internet erectile dysfunction and diet pills, or they are useless in normal doses but toxic at high levels.
Like Vitamin D.
America Leads The World In Controlling Energy Consumption And Emissions – We Should Be Exporting That, Not Solar Dogma
As the world's most powerful economy, we read a lot about how America needs to do more to use cleaner energy, and less of it.A Flawed Science Journalism Article Provides Good Education On How We Can Do Better
Anti-science activists are having a field day on social media, happy that a rather poorly designed study can let them claim that human sperm is being damaged by modern pesticides, even though the study found nothing of the kind.Yawn: The Doomsday Clock Created By Anti-Nuclear Activists Is Still Close To Midnight
The Doomsday Clock, a public relations stunt created by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (1) remains stuck at two minutes until midnight. Just like it was in 1953, the height of the Cold War, when school kids did drills about hiding under desks and everyone built bomb shelters.Today their worry is still nuclear bombs, they assure us, but also global warming and President Trump, and that is why they have solemnly announced that the Doomsday Clock is still at 2 until midnight, with midnight being the End Of The World.
How To Hurt The Environment: Elect A Democratic President, Says Sociology Paper
A team of sociologists say they know of a sure way to hurt environmental protection: Elect a Democratic president.An analysis of over 20,000 people from the General Social Survey between 1973 and 2014 found that support for environmental spending consistently plummeted during the administrations of Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. There are other known factors in regulatory support; the older people get the less they support more regulations, but it is a surprise to find that relative support for environmental regulation changes depending on which party is in the White House.
“All Five Major Health Certifications”: Drake’s Organic Spirits Wants You To Think Its Booze Is Better For You
Drake’s Organic Spirits is touting it is the "first and only spirits line in the world to receive all five major health certifications." By "health", for four of them they simply mean manufacturing or cultural preferences; kosher, vegan, Non-GMO Project, and USDA Organic. (1) For the health-related one, gluten-free, there is no gluten in rum (sugar/molasses) anyway and since they use the same ingredients for their vodka as their rum, there is no gluten in that either.And finally, by "spirits line" they mean the mixes that go in their rum and vodka, not the alcohol itself.
In 2021, Beans Will Be Grown In Space
Traveling to Mars is a ridiculous idea outside anything but "adventure" yet the U.S. administration under President Obama scrubbed his predecessor's return to the moon and replaced it with a program bearing his name, going to the red planet.Whether or not that actually happens, science and technology are using that potential to experiment with growing food in space.