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California, Get Rid Of Paper Receipts But Don’t Use Anti-Science Scaremongering As The Reason

Posted by on Jan 9, 2019 in Chemistry | Comments Off on California, Get Rid Of Paper Receipts But Don’t Use Anti-Science Scaremongering As The Reason

A California lawmaker wants to ban paper receipts - those annoying long things that immediately get lost in a grocery bag - but instead of promoting the legitimate reason to get rid of them, they are useless, he invoked chemical scaremongering.

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California, Get Rid Of Paper Receipts But Don’t Use Anti-Science Scaremongering As The Reason

Posted by on Jan 9, 2019 in Chemistry | Comments Off on California, Get Rid Of Paper Receipts But Don’t Use Anti-Science Scaremongering As The Reason

A California lawmaker wants to ban paper receipts - those annoying long things that immediately get lost in a grocery bag - but instead of promoting the legitimate reason to get rid of them, they are useless, he invoked chemical scaremongering.

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Green Liver: Houseplant Genetically Modified To Filter Even Toxic Levels Of Home Air

Posted by on Jan 8, 2019 in Environment | Comments Off on Green Liver: Houseplant Genetically Modified To Filter Even Toxic Levels Of Home Air

House plants can help clean a home's air, but unless you live in a greenhouse a mechanical high-efficiency particulate (HEPA) air filter is the way to go, because it forces pet dander, pollen (even cigarette smoke if you still do that) or pollen through a mesh that traps those. 

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Advil, Grilled Food, And Disinfectants: 3 Scare Stories From 2018 You Can Leave In The Past

Posted by on Dec 31, 2018 in Chemistry | Comments Off on Advil, Grilled Food, And Disinfectants: 3 Scare Stories From 2018 You Can Leave In The Past

The year 2018 began much like every year does, full of promise and hope. And it ended like almost every year does, jaded and weakened by compromise. 

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Advil, Grilled Food, And Disinfectants: 3 Scare Stories From 2018 You Can Leave In The Past

Posted by on Dec 31, 2018 in Chemistry | Comments Off on Advil, Grilled Food, And Disinfectants: 3 Scare Stories From 2018 You Can Leave In The Past

The year 2018 began much like every year does, full of promise and hope. And it ended like almost every year does, jaded and weakened by compromise. 

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Compostable Plastic Bag Create Confusion For European Policy Makers

Posted by on Dec 28, 2018 in Environment | Comments Off on Compostable Plastic Bag Create Confusion For European Policy Makers

Compostable Plastic Bag Create Confusion For European Policy Makers
European scientific decision-making is often overtly political and that can lead to decisions which defy common sense.

Case in point; disposing of food waste.

In some countries they want food waste separated into its own garbage can but people can't use plastic bags, even if modern science has created a plastic that is just as compostable as the food.

In some countries they can.

There is no way for science to Brexit so companies, researchers and even pro-science politicians remain stymied in parliament-style governments, which must cater to numerous constituencies, often in conflict with each other. 

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Conventional, Organic, When It Comes To Pesticides The American Food Supply Is Safe Again This Year

Posted by on Dec 20, 2018 in Public Health | Comments Off on Conventional, Organic, When It Comes To Pesticides The American Food Supply Is Safe Again This Year

Despite another year of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hyperventilating weeks after a foodborne illness occurs (devastating lettuce farmers while showing how they little they know when exaggerating what they do know), the more evidence-based bodies at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture made 2018 safe to go into the pantry again.

Because few people are all that panicked about lettuce, but everyone wants to know about pesticides.

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Conventional, Organic, When It Comes To Pesticides The American Food Supply Is Safe Again This Year

Posted by on Dec 20, 2018 in Public Health | Comments Off on Conventional, Organic, When It Comes To Pesticides The American Food Supply Is Safe Again This Year

Despite another year of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hyperventilating weeks after a foodborne illness occurs (devastating lettuce farmers while showing how they little they know when exaggerating what they do know), the more evidence-based bodies at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture made 2018 safe to go into the pantry again.

Because few people are all that panicked about lettuce, but everyone wants to know about pesticides.

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Could A Vaccine Help Stop The Fentanyl Crisis?

Posted by on Dec 18, 2018 in Pharmacology | Comments Off on Could A Vaccine Help Stop The Fentanyl Crisis?

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analysis of five years of death certificates (2011-2016) found that among drug overdose deaths 29 percent were due to fentanyl by 2016, a huge leap from 4 percent in 2011, when oxycodone was most dangerous at 13 percent.

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Could A Vaccine Help Stop The Fentanyl Crisis?

Posted by on Dec 18, 2018 in Pharmacology | Comments Off on Could A Vaccine Help Stop The Fentanyl Crisis?

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analysis of five years of death certificates (2011-2016) found that among drug overdose deaths 29 percent were due to fentanyl by 2016, a huge leap from 4 percent in 2011, when oxycodone was most dangerous at 13 percent.

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