How important is journalistic balance in 2014? The days when people believed journalism is impartial are long gone.But some issues are rather settled and BBC journalists are being sent on courses to train them to stop inviting so many cranks onto to air ‘marginal views’ as balance. The BBC Trust was criticized in 2012 for giving too much air-time to critics who oppose non-contentious issues in science, and this was due to an ‘over-rigid application of editorial guidelines on impartiality’ which sought to give the ‘other side’ of the argument, even if that viewpoint was widely dismissed.

Viruses, pesticides, beekeeping practices, pollination service and varroa mites all contribute to managed commercial honeybee colony health. 

Gilles-Eric Séralini, famous anti-science zealot, managed to pay a billion-dollar corporation to publish his previously retracted paper showing bloated rats with giant tumors supposedly caused by GMOs or Roundup or whatever anti-science hippies are demonizing this week (answer - neonics, supposedly killing bees, and everything else, which supposedly causes autism).

Numerous times in the last few years, scientists have concluded that the Keystone XL project was not creating environment harm, despite the claims of environmentalists.  In the affected area, there are already 20,000 miles of pipeline so adding a few hundred more is not putting the ecology in peril.Yet the president has consistently blocked approval, choosing environmentalists over union members. Why, since both vote Democrat? The president has long been convinced that if he can penalize existing companies, and subsidize the kind he prefers, the new ones will win. Blocking Keystone XL and demanding new regulations from the EPA has been part of that effort.

Gilles-Eric Séralini, who had already been known as an anti-GMO/anti-pesticide zealot (GMOs Are A Pesticide Sponge And Other Weird Tales Of Gilles-Eric Seralini), shot to worldwide fame among the anti-science crowd when he published a paper showing bloated rats with giant tumors. All due to GMOs, he said.

When someone has a religious belief that want taught that is in defiance of science, they often say they do not want to replace science with their religion, they want to 'teach the controversy' about what science does not know and how belief can fill the gaps.I am talking about food worship, of course, and the naturalistic fallacy that insists food was superior 20 years ago, or 40 years ago. Basically, whatever age someone is in order to be sentimental about what they ate. One of those people must have taken over the reins at Costco, because an article issues forth with:For decades, farmers have tinkered with plant biology in a quest for better crops. At first, they bred plants together to enhance some traits...

Can people be addicted to the sun? Perhaps, at least they may get an opiate effect from it. A study found that UV exposure leads to elevated blood levels of β-endorphin in mice and causes systemic analgesia - mice who had a lot of UV exposure were less sensitive to touch and temperature and walked with erect tails. Signs that the endorphins were producing opioidlike effects. The researchers then injected the mice with a drug that blocks opioid receptors and found that after a dose of the drug, sensitivity and tails immediately went back to normal. They even underwent withdrawal symptoms.

Four former EPA administrators testified before the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety that more climate change action needs to be taken now.Obviously, substantial action has been taken, it just hasn't been by the government. CO2 emissions from energy are back at early 1990s levels, which means so is overall CO2. Coal, the biggest polluter that America was forced to rely on when the Clinton administration banned nuclear energy in 1994, now has early 1980s levels of emissions.

"One approach to this hallucination problem is to consider the possibility of a demonic world", writes an article in Springer-published

I have no idea what is happening here but I am linking to it because...I don't know why.Weird Al Yankovic as Isaac Newton takes on someone dressed as Bill Nye in an epic rap battle about science.An easy win, right? Bill Nye couldn't even figure out how to take down Ken Ham, after all. Well, in true WWE wrestling style, Neil Tyson comes in at the end and tags up for Nye. Then it's on, baby.Who wins? You decide.