PNAS has issued an expression of concern about a study it published where Facebook attempted to manipulate the emotions of members by controlling their news feed (10.1073/pnas.1320040111). But they only bothered to notice and say anything after the outrage after the fact. read...
read moreGenerally speaking, when a politician goes on television and says he is creating a special task force to look at a product, you know what happened; someone wrote about it in the New York Times and someone did a poll and someone else told him it would look presidential to be bold. read...
read moreIf the world will have 9 billion people or more by 2050, we'll probably be okay.The scare stories of food riots and mass famine once promoted by 1960s Doomsday Prophet Paul Ehrlich are today only promoted by, well, Paul Ehrlich. Even organic farmers say they can feed the world now.In the last 30 years, America has led the world in science and nowhere has that been more evident than in food....
read moreThere's no politics in ice cream but if there were, you can bet Ben & Jerry's would be the official ice cream of Mother Jones and Union of Concerned Scientists and other Democrats everywhere.It's over-priced, it has all the correct social positions for the coasts, and it engages in the sort of naturalistic fallacies and logical flip-flops that anti-science progressives love.Like:...
read moreA new survey shows egg carton labels are confusing organic consumers. They don't really know the difference between "pasture-raised" eggs and the “free-range” and “cage-free” kind but a pasture-raised company is banking on the fact that if people do know, they will spend more on their eggs.Almost anything can be free-range, for example. If a chicken can poke their head through a hole,...
read moreIn the 1830s, jails were an all-purpose solution for a lot of issues. Inmates lived in squalor and people truly did not want to be there so there was a lot less crime. The downside was that nobody really cared about the people who did not belong there, like those with 'retardation' who had been abandoned, or people who were mentally ill but not criminals. read...
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