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Viewpoint: Faulty science undergirds attacks on paraquat herbicide
The Paraquat-Parkinson’s tort extortion process is a perfect example of the Predatort Playbook in action. Tort law firms contact activist ...
Will the Supreme Court block further glyphosate suits against Bayer?
Recent surprise decisions have upended plaintiffs’ expectations on the toxic tort front. In Delaware, the top court is rehearing the ...
Viewpoint: Chemophobic demonizing of DEET — Boston Museum of Science’s fact-free endorsement of ’non chemical’ insect repellent alternatives
I'm sure you know by now that I often speak about the harms of the appeal to nature fallacy and ...
Viewpoint: Greenwashing irony—Organic food and farming exempt from Europe’s green regulations despite evidence of sustainability lag
On 17 June 2024, the EU Council of Ministers adopted its position on the Green Claims Directive, a regulatory proposal first ...
These people deliberately exposed themselves to COVID to figure out why some people are naturally immune. Here’s what we learned
Throughout the pandemic, one of the key questions on everyone’s mind was why some people avoided getting COVID, while others ...
Viewpoint: If you want to understand how pervasive medical disinformation in the U.S. is, check out this circus organized by GOP Senator Ron Johnson
Honestly, I don’t even know where to begin. But for those who aren’t aware, Ron Johnson, GOP Senator for Wisconsin, ...
Viewpoint: Placebo controversy — When should they ethically be used in studies?
The placebo effect is a phenomenon where individuals experience– or perceive to experience– improvements in symptoms or conditions after receiving a treatment ...
Viewpoint: Large scale, Intensive, land-sparing farming is the sustainable future not the problem
The BBC’s coverage of farming and countryside issues, and its editorial bias in favour of small-scale, more extensive forms of ...
Sickle cell victim summits Killimanjaro after breakthrough gene therapy treatment
Jimi Olaghere was born with sickle cell anemia. He endured years of painful crises, fatigue, and breathing problems. This month, ...
The Spanish Flu killed 50 million people. It’s frightening that terrorists can create a synthetic version of the pathogen
“The Terrorism Warning Lights Are Blinking Red Again,” according to former CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell, who delivered that message ...
3.2-million-year-old Lucy may provide a lesson in the link between nudity and shame
Fifty years ago, scientists discovered a nearly complete fossilized skull and hundreds of pieces of bone of a 3.2-million-year-old female ...
Organic or conventional farming? Which system better preserves our fragile insect population
A three-year run of fragmentary Armageddon-like studies had primed the journalism pumps and settled the media framing about the future ...
Viewpoint: ‘It’s a shortsighted move that will inflame America’s disdain for science’: Scientific American breaks precedent, endorses Kamala Harris
This week, Scientific American urged readers to "Vote for Kamala Harris to Support Science, Health and the Environment." It's a ...
Viewpoint: More American Academy of Pediatrics missteps — Its questionable endorsement of allowing hormone blockers in children
The American Academy of Pediatrics warns that pesticides are endocrine-disrupting chemicals that harm children. Absurdly, AAP also endorses the use ...
Viewpoint: Consumers Report bungles science, promotes another food scare—No, Lunchables will not give your kids cancer
“Should you pack Lunchables for Your Kid’s School Lunch?” asks a piece in the April 9th edition of Consumer Reports ...
Are all processed foods unhealthy? Time for a more nuanced rethink
After decades of searching, many scientists believe they have finally pinned down the main problem with our modern diets—the factor ...
The bigger the animal, the bigger its brain? Not so fast
Scientists have long believed that, generally speaking, the bigger an animal is, the bigger its brain. But our recent study challenges ...
Viewpoint: Spreading poison—How green activists pollute public discourse
In the week when the European Union Member States vote for the next European Parliament (plus a host of regional ...
Nutritional epigenetics: How life events can shape your genes and their impact on diet and health
Within the last century, researchers’ understanding of genetics has undergone a profound transformation ...
130 lung cancer patients from six countries given experimental mRNA vaccine as study commences
The first jabs were recently administered in London. There, researchers are testing a vaccine designed to hunt down and kill ...
‘It’s a milestone’: The disease-fighting benefits of weight loss drugs
Few drugs have achieved the stardom that semaglutide, marketed in the United States as Ozempic or Wegovy, has today. A ...
Food prices will climb everywhere as temperatures rise due to climate change – new research
Climate change, and specifically rising temperatures, may cause food prices to increase by 3.2% per year, according to a new ...
Australian glyphosate class action suit with 20,000 plaintiffs dismissed, judge says evidence supporting cancer claims lacking
This past July 24, Judge Michael Lee ruled on the carcinogenicity of RoundUp in a class action involving over 20,000 ...
Fluoride in our water lowers IQ? Activists misrepresent problematic study in viral posts across social media
The National Toxicology Program (NTP), part of the Department of Health and Human Services, has released a comprehensive study titled ...
Viewpoint: AAAS needs a reboot and Science needs a new editor: The creeping corruption of DEI
Dr. H. Holden Thorp, the editor-in-chief of the prestigious journal Science since 2019, recently described on Substack a discussion that occurred during ...
Viewpoint: The EPA just banned a crop chemical. What does that say about activist claims that the agency has become a dupe of the chemical industry?
Last month, the EPA issued an emergency suspension of the herbicide Dacthal and has initiated a process to cancel all ...
Viewpoint: ‘Why does it take 43 years to build a nuclear power plant and 32 years for a GM fish to see a tank? Blame government regulators joining hands with the notorious activist-legal complex
America continues to lead the world in science and technology, but this is hardly a God-given right. Compared to the ...
