The pacific northwest is becoming ground zero for anti-science hippies who are willing to believe anything if it fits their world view.   Their vaccination rates are shocking for people who claim to be so literate.Now they have a new reason to go on a bender about nuclear power.   An article at CounterPunch.org by Janette D. Sherman, M. D. and 'epidemiologist' Joseph Mangano claims that more babies are dying due to...the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant - 35% more. 

My old hometown of Vero Beach is now on the map for archaeologists and art historians.   A bone was found and it turns out to be the only known engraving of a proboscidean (so distinguished generally rather than more specifically because it has a trunk but it could be a mammoth or a mastodon - anything with a trunk) in the Americas. The engraving is 3 inches long from the top of the head to the tip of the tail, and 1.75 inches tall from the top of the head to the bottom of the right foreleg. The fossil bone is a fragment from a long bone of a large mammal—most likely either a mammoth or mastodon.   A mastodon carved into a mastodon bone?  How meta!

When the National Institutes of Health first opened in 1887,  it was called the " Laboratory of Hygiene" and was staffed by one man, 27-year-old Joseph James Kinyoun.  Mission: collect blood and stool samples from the sick in order to culture pathogens in the lab. Here is the entire NIH of that period.  One room at the Marine Hospital on Staten Island, New York.

There is a belief, among progressives of course, that conservatives are more "anti science" - but progressives in science tend to gloss over the anti-science positions of the left, and the anti-vaccine community is made up of far more progressives than climate change skepticism is made up of conservatives.    While the latter has long-term consequences, anti-vaccine people have short term danger for our children and theirs.

Abortion is barely a controversy in America these days.  Most people, men and women, are against it for themselves but it has been the law of the land for two generations.   Crazy politicians like Barbara Boxer of California still campaign on abortion by insisting if a Republican beats her in a Senate race they could somehow overturn it but for the most part it is a non-issue outside zealots.   It isn't going anywhere.

Hate compact fluorescent bulbs?   Outside lobbyists for billion-dollar bulb companies and Treehugger, we can't find anyone who likes the things.   Heck, as long as the government bans alternatives, their ad campaign could be "Want a fragile box of toxic mercury in your child's bedroom?  Buy our CFLs!" and people would still dutifully buy them if someone slapped "green" on the label.

Did Pres. Obama sign a questionnaire supporting same-sex marriage or not?  His aides said he didn't.  Until he did.  Basically, even the White House doesn't seem to know.I am sure gay groups, who likely voted 90% for him, are concerned about being told things like it has been "very clear that his position is evolving."  Well, no, there is nothing clear at all about that sentence, much less his position.

Beluga whales, famous for their human-like facial expressions, don't like artificial materials such as neoprene diving suits, it seems.   So when Natalia Avseenko wanted to help two belugas adjust to humans in order to tame them for dolphinariums around the world, she got naked.In sub-zero water temperatures.   Most people would die in 5 minutes or less in those temperatures but Avseenko credits yoga and meditation with her ability to last an incredible 10 minutes and 40 seconds.   

As creators of actual good content, we're pretty critical of content farms like Huffington Post or Answers.com or the rest of them - if HuffPo steals a fair-use snippet from our site it will rank higher in Google than the actual article, though not because their content is better but simply because they learned how to game the Google algorithm.Well, who can we criticize when HuffPo socked away over $300 million from AOL doing what it does?   But at least a few people have been disgruntled at the content farm mentality - though not because they had the sort-of sense of entitlement journalists get about how media exists to keep them employed.

A satire site composed of lefty science bloggers (well, is there any other kind) at least is not siding with progressives when it comes to their anti-science agenda regarding food.    So they wrote what many of us would like to write, except to do it we'd have to be pseudonyms like they are, and that doesn't do much for credibility.But credibility doesn't matter in satire.  Anyone can be funny.