If are in the humanities and want to win a case of wine in the future, bet against someone in the information theory space. Neither of you can ever really be correct but the one with at least the pretense of the scientific method will have to admit they have fallen prey to someone like a post-modernist, who can never be wrong. On anything. Ever. Because truth is just a cultural reflex and can't be grounded epidemiologically.

That is what happened to Christof Koch, PhD, when he was young enough to believe he was in a science field and that the Truth Is Out There. Some 25 years he argued in a debate with David Chalmers that by 2023 the 'mechanism' in neurons that produce consciousness would be found.

Do you know someone who once got their child an autism diagnosis, mostly so they could do things like skip the line at Disney World? How about a medical exemption so they could go to school without an MMR vaccine?

If so, you probably live in a place like California or New York City. Rich people often stay rich by exploiting loopholes so they don't have to spend money. They are even happy to lose weight as long as the rest of us pay higher health insurance premiums - much the way they have gotten poor people to pay for their solar power subsidies.

With increased legalization of marijuana across the United States came increased cases of addiction, and even greater negative outcomes because more of it is smoked.

In a phase 2a clinical study in volunteers with cannabis addiction, a compound named AEF0117, a type 1 cannabinoid receptor signaling-specific inhibitors (CB1-SSi) candidate, produced statistically significant reductions in the positive subjective and reinforcing effects of smoked cannabis.

AEF0117 is discovered and developed by Aelis Farma and based on a natural brain mechanism that combats CB1 receptor hyperactivity. 

Were dinosaurs capable of parthenogenesis - a virgin birth? Perhaps, because it happened in birds and now a crocodile, and both archosaurs are descendants of dinosaurs. 

The anomaly in a lone female crocodile occurred in 2018. She laid eggs and despite being in captivity for 16 years, had one with a female fetus. The eggs did not hatch but analysis showed the fetus occurred without input from a male. 

We hear a lot about German atrocities during World War II but in some ways Japan was just as bad. The Nanjing massacre in December 1937 is well-known but the Japanese army's organized use of typhoid, cholera, and plague gets less press. They didn't get as much attention because during the Japanese occupation, China was also fighting a civil war between communists and nationalists.

For the third time, expansions of the poorly named Waters of the United States regulations have been struck down, this time in SACKETT ET UX. v. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY ET AL., the Environmental Protection Agency cited the Clean Water Act and said a family could not build a home on land they owned - because the house was near a ditch and that ditch led to a creek and that creek led to Prairie Lake. Which is a 'navigable' water.

Results of a small BioNTech pancreatic cancer vaccine with 16 patients showed that half remained free of the cancer after 18 months. It's an intriguing milestone because it is a deadly cancer due to many being asymptomatic until it has spread - and 88% mortality.

The patients had a vaccine tailored to them individually, which shows the promise of using messenger RNA (mRNA) to get the patient's immune system to destroy cancer cells. If this holds up in larger trial it would mean true personalized medicine.

The Godfather of Global Warming, Dr. James Hansen, was criticized in his day for wanting mitigation but compared to modern government employees and climate evangelists he was downright practical. He noted coal was the problem and he was right. He was also right when he fleshed that out by stating that clean coal would solve the emissions problem, no Draconian cutbacks and penalties needed.

Why isn't there a female Viagra? Well, there was. It didn't work, it never worked, and yet it got approved anyway because the Obama administration didn't want to look sexist. Science and health care costs did not matter when it came to perception.

That is the only reason screening mammograms have been dropped from age 50 to age 40. With that recommendation, health care is going to get more expensive because with government controlling it, and instituting a 'defensive medicine' and 'teach to the protocol' environment, every woman is going to be told to get one.