Posted on Sep 24, 2021 | Comments Off on Known Flaws In Ivermectin Meta-Analyses Are Bad News For Environmental Activists, Who Have Exploited These For Years
If a group of astrologers all write papers endorsing astrology and then another astrologer comes along and does a meta-analysis of those, they can conclude authoritatively that astrology works. As a smart reader, you know it's nonsense, but if you are selling astrology services, you either set out to deceive people or you want to believe so badly you lose your ability to reason. read...
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Posted on Aug 30, 2021 | Comments Off on If You Care About Evidence-Based Government, Leave A Comment For EPA About Neonics Pesticides
The EPA is requesting public comment on a biological evaluation of three seed treatment pesticides, called neonicotinoids. Neonicotinoids were created in the 1990s to require less mass spraying and possible damage to the environment. They are seed treatments, so they protect plants when they are most vulnerable to pests and that means less strain on the environment with spraying.The sounds great,...
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Posted on Aug 26, 2021 | Comments Off on 35% Of Americans Are Okay With ‘Burgers’ That Are Alternatives To Meat, Over 50% Have Tried One
A new survey has good news for the alternative-to-cattle market, Beyond Burgers and the like; 54 percent of surveyed Americans claim they have tried it and 70 percent of those thought it okay.(1) Burger King is a game changer on that, and over 40 percent reported buying it there. That all sounds great, but there is a confounder. The survey of 30,700 conflates lab-grown meat and...
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Posted on Aug 26, 2021 | Comments Off on 35% Of Americans Are Okay With ‘Burgers’ That Are Alternatives To Meat, Over 50% Have Tried One
A new survey has good news for the alternative-to-cattle market, Beyond Burgers and the like; 54 percent of surveyed Americans claim they have tried it and 70 percent of those thought it okay.(1) Burger King is a game changer on that, and over 40 percent reported buying it there. That all sounds great, but there is a confounder. The survey of 30,700 conflates lab-grown meat and...
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Posted on Aug 23, 2021 | Comments Off on Scientizatioin Of Politics Has New Battles, So Evolution Is Now More Accepted Than In The Past
At the turn of the century, if you denied global warming or believed that vaccines cause autism, it was easy to know which political party you were in. When it came to acceptance of evolution, though, things were muddier. Though more Democrats than Republicans accepted evolution the margin was single digits and over half of all people didn't know what to make of it or flat out denied it.(1)read...
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Posted on Aug 17, 2021 | Comments Off on Americans Were Surveyed About Subway And Megan Rapinoe Taking A Knee – Here’s What They Said
Subway Brand Ambassador and soccer star Megan Rapinoe kneeled during the national anthem at the Tokyo Olympics and Twitter did what Twitter was designed to do and went into spasms, despite that being about as edgy and controversial as endorsing clean water in 2021. Subway still had reason to worry. How will it affect sandwiches? That is what they need to know, because selling sandwiches to...
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