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Did Environmental Working Group Manufacture A Study Just To Sue Quaker Oats?

Posted by on Feb 21, 2024 in Chemistry | Comments Off on Did Environmental Working Group Manufacture A Study Just To Sue Quaker Oats?

On February 15th, the litigation outfit known as Environmental Working Group, most famous for using public USDA data (although excluding pesticides from the organic food companies which fund them) to compile a 'Dirty Dozen list' of foods which contain pesticide residues (100 percent of them) but that is nonetheless reliably rewritten by allied journalists in progressive newspapers, paid to publish a

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New Analysis Adds To The Heat Pump Controversy

Posted by on Feb 13, 2024 in Energy | Comments Off on New Analysis Adds To The Heat Pump Controversy

Decades before solar and wind took over green marketing dollars, back when environmentalists still promoted natural gas and hydroelectric power, heat pumps became an energy-saving fad.

The problem with them became evident nearly as fast as that electric car range you think you'll get - it is only under ideal conditions in a lab. So if you bought one because you were told it is "400 percent efficient", you probably also bought organic food because someone told you it doesn't have pesticides. In other words, you were just believing in magic.

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Minorities Don’t Buy Populist Rhetoric Of Either US Party As Much As Whites Do

Posted by on Jan 31, 2024 in Anthropology | Comments Off on Minorities Don’t Buy Populist Rhetoric Of Either US Party As Much As Whites Do

America is one of the most religiously, racially and ethnically diverse countries in the world, but that doesn't mean Latinos, Asians or Blacks believe that Democrats and Republicans want them as anything more than reliable voting blocs.

A new analysis finds that though Asians were up 35 percent between 2010 and 2020, Latinos increased 23 percent and the Black population increased by 6 percent even as Whites decreased 2 percent, minorities didn't vote in numbers similar to their eligible voter population.

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Science Denial: Alternatives To Medicine Like Acupuncture And Naturopathy Increased A Lot In 20 Years

Posted by on Jan 27, 2024 in Psychology | Comments Off on Science Denial: Alternatives To Medicine Like Acupuncture And Naturopathy Increased A Lot In 20 Years

Republicans joined the anti-vaccine movement in 2021 but you might not know it xisted prior to that. Academics and allied journalists would roll out surveys showing that the anti-vaccine movement was similar on both sides to rationalize the behavior of their tribe - while ignoring actual data.

Data like that that coast of California had more vaccine exemptions for school kids than the rest of the US combined. Some coastal schools had vaccine rates of just 26%. Fortunately, we had physicians like Dr. Richard Pan on our side, willing to defy his political party to save kids. We pressured the Governor to sign a law banning arbitrary exemptions and now California is nearly as high as Mississippi and Alabama in vaccine uptake.

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COVID-19: Healthcare Workers Exited At Dramatically Higher Rates

Posted by on Jan 26, 2024 in Public Health | Comments Off on COVID-19: Healthcare Workers Exited At Dramatically Higher Rates

Like some soldiers become conscientious objectors if they end up in an actual military situation, or when over 300 armed government union employees suddenly forgot they had guns while kids were being murdered in Uvalde, healthcare workers, 18.8 million strong just in the US, were more likely to exit the workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Unlike the first two, healthcare workers were right to be afraid. 

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Safe: In Utero Exposure To Maternal COVID-19 Vaccination

Posted by on Jan 22, 2024 in Pharmacology | Comments Off on Safe: In Utero Exposure To Maternal COVID-19 Vaccination

An analysis of 2,261 and 1,940 infants ages 12 and 18 months, respectively, found that COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy had no impact on infant neurodevelopment. 

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Suspect Correlation: Epidemiologists Link IVF To BMI Of Kids

Posted by on Jan 17, 2024 in Public Health | Comments Off on Suspect Correlation: Epidemiologists Link IVF To BMI Of Kids

A population-based cohort study sought to examine a controversial epidemiological claim about assisted reproductive technologies like in vitro fertilization and the body mass index (BMI) of children.

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American Academy Of Pediatrics: Lied About Vaccines And Autism, Kids Walking To School, And Now GMOs

Posted by on Jan 16, 2024 in Public Health | Comments Off on American Academy Of Pediatrics: Lied About Vaccines And Autism, Kids Walking To School, And Now GMOs

It is an unfortunate reality in America that medical societies have an outsized influence on government policy.

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Tianeptine And Other Supplements Have Gotten An FDA Free Pass For 30 Years – It’s Time For That To End

Posted by on Jan 11, 2024 in Public Health | Comments Off on Tianeptine And Other Supplements Have Gotten An FDA Free Pass For 30 Years – It’s Time For That To End

Politics is about trade-offs. Perhaps a reason President Biden isn't better-regarded is because if Congress didn't give him what he wanted, he circumvents them with agencies he controls, such as OSHA with vaccine mandates, the CDC with rent control, and EPA to ban safe weedkillers and pesticides.

He can take a page out of Presidents Clinton and Bush 43 on how to do better if he wins again this fall.

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New York Has A Mild Winter Two Weeks In – Global Climate Change Implicated

Posted by on Jan 5, 2024 in Atmospheric | Comments Off on New York Has A Mild Winter Two Weeks In – Global Climate Change Implicated

We're only two weeks into winter and a New York university is already declaring above-average temperatures in 2023 a result of global climate change. 

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