At what point is enforced identification with what is obviously a collapsing system called out by people on the inside of once-powerful industries?Steelworkers once believed there was no limit to what they could grab from corporations, even autoworkers made that error. Twinkies went bankrupt to get out of union control and start over. Yet no one on the floor believe that would happen.read...
read moreHoneybees get attention in environmental fundraising campaigns because people don't understand pollination.(1)read more
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A graphic from the Washington Post about motorcycle deaths is making the rounds again on Twitter, and it will set off a lot of comments by people who can't put it in context, so let's go back to the source paper.Here is what you need to know:If you ride 15 miles every day on a motorcycle for a year, you have a 1 in 860 chance of dying. If you fly 500 miles every day on an airplane for a year, you...
read moreDuring the Obama administration, the credibility of the US Centers for Disease Control went into serious decline. Though it only became evident to most how incompetent career government bureaucrats were when COVID-19 hit - they denied it was a pandemic and said the President was being xenophobic for wanting to ban travel from China(1) - those of us inside the system saw that they were long not...
read moreRunning a pro-science nonprofit is a poor business model. Especially compared to lawyer groups like Environmental Working Group or rich deniers like Greenpeace.'Your food is safe' is a terrible call to action but 'evil chemical corporations are killing you' gets the money rolling in - even though the former is true and the latter is a paranoid conspiracy theory with no basis in fact.read...
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