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Bisexuality: Nearly 10% of Americans report having had both male and female partners — three times more than in 1994

Ross Pomeroy | RealClearScience | 
A new study shows that bisexuality—being attracted to or engaging in sexual behavior with people of both sexes—has tripled in ...
Worm world: Are there more parasites now than ever?

Worm world: Are there more parasites now than ever?

Ross Pomeroy | RealClearScience | 
"Is the world wormier than it used to be?" Chelsea Wood, an Associate Professor in the School of Aquatic and ...
Locked-in syndrome: We don't know much about the mental health of people who are fully paralyzed yet conscious

Locked-in syndrome: We don’t know much about the mental health of people who are fully paralyzed yet conscious

Jonathan Moens | RealClearScience | 
In 1993, Julio Lopes was sipping a coffee at a bar when he had a stroke. He fell into a ...
Viewpoint: Switching to organic food because it’s healthier, safer and better for the environment? Think again

Viewpoint: Switching to organic food because it’s healthier, safer and better for the environment? Think again

Many consumers are committed to organic products for reasons that are more emotional than logical. They frequently define their purchasing ...
Talking to newborns: Within the first few hours, they can recognize language patterns and begin learning

Talking to newborns: Within the first few hours, they can recognize language patterns and begin learning

Guillaume Thierry | RealClearScience | 
Babies actually start processing language and speech incredibly early. Even while in the womb, they learn to discern voices, along ...
Bad sleep: How much rest do we need to prevent cognitive decline and dementia?

Bad sleep: How much rest do we need to prevent cognitive decline and dementia?

Most of us struggle to think well after a poor night’s sleep – feeling foggy and failing to perform at ...
Viewpoint: George Washington University School of Public Health and anti-pesticide economist Charles Benbrook caught in ethics breach

Viewpoint: George Washington University School of Public Health and anti-pesticide economist Charles Benbrook caught in ethics breach

Kathleen Hefferon | RealClearScience | 
A recent public release from a graduate student at George Washington University claimed insights from old data answers new questions in newly published research. These ...
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How exercise reprograms your brain

Ross Pomeroy | RealClearScience | 
Physical activity can do wonders for the body. Exercise can trim weight, chisel muscles, and strengthen the lower back, among ...
A highly effective sports performance enhancing drug is…. caffeine

A highly effective sports performance enhancing drug is…. caffeine

Ross Pomeroy | RealClearScience | 
Late last year, a team of scientists from Brazil published the results of a study exploring the effects of a ...
Nanocontraception: How heated nanoparticles injected in testicles might be a viable method of male birth control

Nanocontraception: How heated nanoparticles injected in testicles might be a viable method of male birth control

Jeffrey Mo | RealClearScience | 
Nanocontraception is based on the idea that nanoparticles — here, about 100 nanometres in diameter, or roughly one-thousandth the width ...
What can our eyes reveal about sexual orientation?

What can our eyes reveal about sexual orientation?

Ross Pomeroy | RealClearScience | 
Through our eyes, the world is revealed. But can our eyes also reveal ourselves? In particular, the pupil, the black ...
Part II: Viewpoint — Questioning ‘race equity ideology’ is a career-ender in modern medicine

Part II: Viewpoint — Questioning ‘race equity ideology’ is a career-ender in modern medicine

John Murawski | RealClearScience | 
The national movement to eradicate what activists call systemic racism and white privilege from medicine and health care has few ...
Part I: Viewpoint — Does American medicine perpetuate a ‘racist caste system’? Critical Race Theory enters mainstream health

Part I: Viewpoint — Does American medicine perpetuate a ‘racist caste system’? Critical Race Theory enters mainstream health

John Murawski | RealClearScience | 
Medical schools are adding units on critical race theory, intersectionality, implicit bias, identity, oppression, allyship, power and privilege to their curricula. Medical students are ...
Viewpoint: Why are misconceptions about transgender youth so widespread? Maybe too many people listen to misinformed pundits like FOX’s Tucker Carlson

Viewpoint: Why are misconceptions about transgender youth so widespread? Maybe too many people listen to misinformed pundits like FOX’s Tucker Carlson

Ross Pomeroy | RealClearScience | 
[Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson has] repeatedly mangled and misrepresented the science on gender dysphoria and transgender youth. ... "There ...
Virtual reality sex might soon be a reality. What can we expect?

Virtual reality sex might soon be a reality. What can we expect?

Ewen Lavoie | RealClearScience | 
VR sex simulation is not the same as porn. The term “VR porn” is therefore somewhat misleading. When viewing photos ...
Pigs are ‘hot’ as family pets. Are they as social as dogs?

Pigs are ‘hot’ as family pets. Are they as social as dogs?

Ross Pomeroy | RealClearScience | 
Pork is now the most widely eaten meat in the world. At the same time, owing to the creation of novel, smaller ...
Viewpoint: The failure of corn-powered cars – How America’s ethanol subsidies boosted food prices and carbon emissions

Viewpoint: The failure of corn-powered cars – How America’s ethanol subsidies boosted food prices and carbon emissions

Ross Pomeroy | RealClearScience | 
E-15 is only available at about 2 to 3% of gas stations in the United States, so for those unaware, it means ...
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There are a lot of psychopaths amongst us… and some of them are gifts to society

Ross Pomeroy | RealClearScience | 
As a happily married family man and a successful neuroscientist at the University of California-Irvine, [James] Fallon didn't exactly fit ...
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COVID = Less sex and more porn

Ross Pomeroy | RealClearScience | 
In a recent paper published to the Archives of Sexual Behavior, [professor of media psychology and design Nicola] Döring explored a few of ...
Monsanto in Another Huge Lawsuit for Lying About Roundup Cancer Link

Viewpoint: Bogus glyphosate-cancer litigation undermines legitimate product safety lawsuits

Joseph Annotti | RealClearScience | 
Nearly every American was taught the same six steps that serve as a fundamental building block to scientific education: Make ...
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What is the slippery notion of ‘consciousness’?

Ross Pomeroy | RealClearScience | 
As humans, we know we [are conscious] but haven't a clue how it arises. It's a facet of intelligent life ...
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Why turning to germaphobia won’t protect us from another pandemic

Sophie Strosberg | RealClearScience | 
As someone who has spent years doing research in health geography, I understand that this collective turn to cleanliness serves ...
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Powerful psychedelic drug ibogaine could help people kick opioid addictions

Ross Pomeroy | RealClearScience | 
Somewhere around two million Americans suffer from opioid-related substance use disorder. Treatments like buprenorphine and methadone calm the brain circuits affected by opioids, reducing ...
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Outside of ‘occasional surges’, biodiversity evolution has been largely stagnant for millions of years, studies suggest

Gareth Willmer | RealClearScience | 
The traditional view is that species have increased in diversity continuously over the past 200 million years, particularly in the last ...
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How did early humans avoid being wiped out by tuberculosis?

Ross Pomeroy | RealClearScience | 
Tuberculosis is responsible for as many as one billion deaths in the last 200 years alone, but its murderous history ...
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First plants didn’t evolve flower color to attract pollinators, study suggests

Ross Pomeroy | RealClearScience | 
Flowering plants feature a wondrous array of colors, the primary purpose of which is to attract insect pollinators. But this ...
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Ancient Egyptians loved beer. Here’s the recipe they used to brew it

Ross Pomeroy | RealClearScience | 
The ancient Egyptians loved beer. According to Mohamed A. Farag, a Professor of Chemistry at The American University in Cairo: ...
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Too many carbs, calories? Nope. Lack of fiber biggest problem with American diets

Ross Pomeroy | RealClearScience | 
Ask Americans about what they think is the biggest problem with their diets and you'll probably hear a variety of ...
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