If San Diego has Republicans, anti-vaccine sentiment is bipartisan But even CDC data can be misused if someone sets out to do so. San Diego County had a measles outbreak in 2008, for example. San…

“At this point it would be difficult to revive the project,” Matthew Bunn, a nuclear expert at Harvard University, told Jeff Tollefson at Nature. “All of the people who were working on this project…

Attempts to craft articles with elaborate philosophical rationalizations are the kind of thing that conservatives of the Buckley era used to hate - so it is no surprise that their libertarian…

"Astronomy is about as pure and as clean as you can get, so what’s the big deal?” That's the question an astronomer asked about why, after 13 astronomy experiments on Mauna Kea, 13,000 feet in the…

I couldn't help but laugh — one has to, or cry: the headline read, "EPA looks to build on 2015 wins this year," in The Hill, January 4th. Wins? For whom? Like Charlie Sheen? Not for the USA, not…

                  Einstein’s God in physics    In contrast to the known religious with human prayers as…

The New York Times continues its grand tradition of always letting its ideology trump sound science and journalism at every opportunity. In a 25-page opus last weekend, they published a piece…

While dating in the workplace is not inherently bad and cannot be effectively forbidden there are certain rules that go with that.  Don’t date subordinates, if you do find them a new…

Pre-test Q: What in blue blazes does he mean by that? (Answer at the end)**A commenter pointed out to me the apparent insensitivity of the juxtaposition of "Watermelon" and Obama. I am sorry — that…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that U.S. Marshals seized almost 90,000 bottles worth over $400,000 of a dietary supplement said to contain a psychoactive plant.  The…

Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Looking for new physics in SM Higgs sector by semi-empirical analysis of its many parameters       After the Higgs boson discovery, LHC…

Louis Pasteur, the French microbiologist, is most famous for the heat treatment process that bears his name. Pasteurization has saved untold millions of lives by killing off foodborne…

Here is my holiday card for 2015, a tradition of mine going back to 1990.  Enjoy. On the back... I also include a summary of the year.  Here is the stuff on my research efforts: Hello:It…

 Geoff Marcy soon to be retired Professor of Astronomy at UC Berkley.  Pioneer of the search for exoplanets accused serial sexual harasser and perverse sexual assaulter was tried by media…

In order to save you-all the trouble of poring over the 2000 page Omnibus Budget bill passed last week, let me point out some of its issue of concern:Let's get the good part out of the way: it won't…

The Code of Federal Regulations, which govern ‘standards of identity’, was created in 1938 specifically to prevent companies from selling fake food using established names and duping customers into…

Introduction: A covert alliance forged of mutual interest has declared victory after the recently-concluded Paris climate conclave issued its final accord, garnering almost 200 national…

Not content with blathering about the politics of soda and the urgent need to label GMO-containing food to protect America's consumers from science, Prof. M. Nestle has come up with an impressive…

Not content with blathering about the politics of soda and the urgent need to label GMO-containing food to protect America's consumers from science, Prof. M. Nestle has come up with an impressive…

The latest nonsense from the NYTimes comes in the form of an op-ed by the noted chef and restaurateur, Tom Colicchio. Mr. C. is described as chef, owner of Crafted Hospitality and co…