Chemistry

War On Science: Mice Are Not Little People Even If An Academic Hates Glyphosate

A recent paper claims the common weedkiller known as glyphosate gives mice Alzheimer's and therefore is a risk to humans. Arizona State University researchers created an association between glyphosate exposure in mice and symptoms of neuroinflammatio ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 23 2024 - 12:12pm

For Christmas, 600,000 Kids Should Get A Biopesticide Against Mosquitoes That Kill

GMOs had quietly been in use for decades when they became controversial- for saving a fruit in Hawaii that legacy techniques like breeding and chemicals had not. The Rainbow Papaya became a home run for genetic engineering, the first genetically rescued or ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 25 2024 - 9:49am

Homeopathic Effects Of Pesticides? And Climate Change Will Make It Worse

A recent paper claims that even at low doses pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides are changing the behavior of insects. Though they are not able to show how it is happening, the authors use 'needs more testing' rhetoric to call on governments t ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 1 2025 - 4:52pm