Posted on Jul 14, 2025 | Comments Off on 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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Posted on Jun 19, 2025 | Comments Off on Lottery Bottle Bill Could Improve Recycling
In the 1980s, there was a conflict raging about recycling. Governments were starting to do it while states that had a 'bottle bill' - a deposit on bottles you got refunded upon return - wanted to keep their success.read more
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Posted on Apr 7, 2025 | Comments Off on How Proposition 65 Made Products More Expensive Even Outside California
When the Proposition 65 referendum, the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, was being debated, concerns about abuse and high cost were dismissed by the lawyers behind it with the assurance that lawyers wouldn't decide what products would be deemed carcinogens, the state would abdicate that to France's International Agency for Research on Cancer.read...
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Posted on Mar 5, 2025 | Comments Off on The Sexual Evolution – Gender And Nature May Be More Complex Than You Believe
I have a trans flag flying from my house but I completely understand concerns by women that they're being set back 60 years if someone born a biological man starts setting female swimming or boxing records. Women have their own sports because we turned scientific differences into policy. It created fairness.If you're in a binary world you may have decided one thing about my beliefs in the first...
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Posted on Feb 13, 2025 | Comments Off on Prop 65 Is A California Gimmick That Raises Prices For The Poor
Proposition 65 was a voter referendum that stated if a chemical was correlated to cancer, it needed to have a cancer warning label. Lawyers who were behind the public relations effort to get it passed assured consumers it would not be abused. Yet a few years later, epidemiologists inside the once-credible International Agency for Research on Cancer in France set out to gain "expert witness"...
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Posted on Feb 7, 2025 | Comments Off on When Told Lower Incomes Mean Less School Funding, College Students Become More Liberal
So many people want to move to the United States of America because virtually anyone who arrives legally can start a business with little problem and get rich.A lot of people born in the US would rather be born in a place where they can never get rich but more things are free for the poor. They're not wrong, normal human psychological variation means most people would rather not compete if given...
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