Appeals Court Wants EPA To Ban Chlorpyrifos, Without Seeing Any Data
Environmental trial lawyers are thrilled that the politically friendly 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California read more
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Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons – Chinese Epidemiologists Declare Your Barbecue Will Kill You
The American Chemical Society is a not-for-profit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress. That doesn't keep their editors from lobbying against science and common sense, like when a team of authors in Environmental Science&Technology, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, are allowed to terrify Americans by scaremongering the American barbecue grill the weekend...
read more3 Ways Activists Gamed California’s Prop 65 List To Get Glyphosate On It
Glyphosate, a component of the popular herbicide commonly known as Roundup in the United States, has been placed on California's Proposition 65 list, which requires a cancer warning label on it, despite the fact no regulatory body can find evidence it harms anyone or anything other than what it is supposed to harm, much less that it causes any cancer.read...
read moreMichael Pollan Doesn’t Just Hate Agriculture, He Hates All Scientists
Michael Pollan, food activist and journalist, is the proverbial man trapped in the past in his latest piece for the New York Times, criticizing the Obama administration for not catering to his bizarre beliefs about how food production actually works, and along the way taking the opportunity to smear...me. read...
read moreHow 40 Percent Of People Function In The Morning Remains A Mystery
A new survey finds that how 40 percent of people function is a scientific mystery - because only 60 percent of people start their mornings with coffee.This is baffling in a country where $18 billion annually is spent just on specialty coffees. read...
read moreDo You Want A Salty Soft Drink?
Soft drinks are loaded with sugar because they need to be sweet. But why is sweetness the fundamental consideration? Some candies are sour and people love them. When did we become so polarized about sweet and salty? Some of it is just culture and so it would take time to adjust. A friend of mine moved to the U.S. from Korea and an early comment was, 'There is so much cheese' but Americans don't...
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