What would you do if you disappeared, only to appear 24 hours later, with no memory of anything that happened and no change in you at all? And then the next day it happened again, except the time lapse doubled.What would your family do? I don't know about you, but my alibi would not hold up. If I disappeared for three days, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John had better be with me when I return, or the wife would rain down Hell on me.

In 1994, United States President Bill Clinton fulfilled a campaign promise to his constituents by exempting supplements from any real FDA oversight. Scientists objected on the grounds that heavy marketing of alternatives to medicine would undermine confidence in actual medicine.(1) 

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of individuals, companies, and NGOs, from California to Minnesota to Massachusetts, have come under investigation for fraud in taking money from the federal government.Now the Department of Justice is investigating an insider in Dr. David Morens, M.D., a career advisor inside the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which came into controversy when it was learned that they had funded gain of function research in the Wuhan Lab where SARS-CoV-2 may have erupted.

Just a few years ago, there were concerns that minorities like blondes and redheads were going extinct. The future belonged to Miss Clairol because they're recessive genes and with just five generations of bad biological rolls, you could have less chance of Scottish hair than Senator Elizabeth Warren has of being Native American.It may be that scientists just weren't seeing the signals.Instead of going extinct, a study of 10,016 newer ancient West Eurasian genomes, plus 5,820 existing ancient sequences and 6,438 modern ones finds that red hair and fair skin have become more common over the last 10,000 years, not less. Evolution not only didn't slow down in that time, natural selection could those traits to speed up over the last 4,000 years.

At what point is enforced identification with what is obviously a collapsing system called out by people on the inside of once-powerful industries?Steelworkers once believed there was no limit to what they could grab from corporations, even autoworkers made that error. Twinkies went bankrupt to get out of union control and start over. Yet no one on the floor believe that would happen.

A graphic from the Washington Post about motorcycle deaths is making the rounds again on Twitter, and it will set off a lot of comments by people who can't put it in context, so let's go back to the source paper.Here is what you need to know:If you ride 15 miles every day on a motorcycle for a year, you have a 1 in 860 chance of dying. If you fly 500 miles every day on an airplane for a year, you have a 1 in 85,000 chance of dying.

During the Obama administration, the credibility of the US Centers for Disease Control went into serious decline. Though it only became evident to most how incompetent career government bureaucrats were when COVID-19 hit - they denied it was a pandemic and said the President was being xenophobic for wanting to ban travel from China(1) - those of us inside the system saw that they were long not equipped to help with much at all. If you need six weeks to tell the public lettuce has E. coli, basically five weeks after people had eaten the lettuce, you are not a public health agency, you are just a government job works program.

California government has a new proposal that could ban thousands of chemicals, even if they are natural.California is, of course, famously anti-science. The reason lawyers who wanted to sue over weedkillers filed in San Francisco is because it is the most anti-science city in America's most anti-science state. And it worked. Juries readily believe that plants are just tiny green people so a weedkiller that only acts on a pathway not found in humans at all can still somehow cause human cancer. Even if you only sprayed it one time.

Raw milk is known to be 700X more likely to cause a foodborne illness. Since evangelists for bacteria in food often hide illnesses to protect their beliefs it may be even higher.Cheese will be safer, if it is aged long enough. Which means you are not dealing with a company that is in a financial panic. Like RAW FARM-brand raw dairy products.When Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was a lawyer for Natural Resources Defense Council and investor in solar gimmicks, he was adored by Democrats who shared his beliefs that science was a vast right-wing conspiracy. When he joined the Trump administration, some followed him and embraced his MAGA agenda(1), but many turned on him because he joined a Republican.

Communist dictator-funded social activists are scrambling to do damage control again after Honda has followed GM, Hertz, and many others in declaring a giant loss due to their electric car business.Because they assumed that every future President would be like Joe Biden and continue to mandate and subsidize it. That didn't happen. The Trump team surprised a lot of people by winning again in 2024 and while some of the decisions made by his employees have been opposed to legitimate science and health, he was not wrong on solar and electric cars.Paid flaks kept saying electric cars are taking over the world, solar powering it was surpassing "fossil" fuels(1), it was cheaper than conventional energy, and better for the environment.