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 European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) Committee for Risk Assessment is unsurprisingly more literate than a San Francisco jury, so they have joined every major scientific body in recognizing that the common weedkiller glyphosate does not cause cancer, or any other ailment, unless you fall into a vat of it and drown.Like anyone literate, they know plants are not tiny people. The biological pathway that would kill Groot does not exist in humans at all. 

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.

There is a joke told in the science community.Q: How many naturopaths does it take to treat a disease?A: 3. One to distract you by telling you that Mercury is in retrograde, one to mix up a potion, and then one to illegally put actual medicine in it.Despite being told they are scientifically literate - the same way too many nutritionists, dietitians and one BBC journalist have taken to weirdly claiming that Ultra-Processed Foods are not just a new fad label for alternatives, they cause disease and are not even food - a lot of people in the US buy supplements, natural remedies, tonics, potions, salves, and other stuff that doesn't work any better than a sugar pill.

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.

When those the age of my parents bought houses in California in the late 1950s, it cost about $110,000 in today's money. Now the average is 700 percent more. In the early 2000s, health care was not cheap but if you didn't like the health care plan at your job, you could buy your own for a few hundred dollars per month. Since 2012, health care premiums have gone up 300 percent but access is now equal - equally bad. The list goes on.

Quick, how many coronavirus pandemics have there been?A. 1B. 3C. A lotThe answer is obviously, if you read here, C. We have no way to know how many coronavirus pandemics there have been because we didn't even parse it out from the common cold family until the 1960s. We know there were two coronavirus pandemics, SARS and MERS, in the 16 years prior to COVID-19 but we don't know before then how many had happened and were just called 'flu' or were regular respiratory distress that put people with co-morbidities on ventilators or killed them and were labeled as one of the co-morbidies.

There is little reason to wonder why so many didn't trust government approval of the COVID-19 vaccine; the public hadn't trusted government science decision-making for decades prior to that, vaccine deniers had simply switched from Democrats to Republicans.The reason distrust is so endemic is because of epidemiological hype and media outlets treating it like it is science, rather than noting that correlation is placed over in the EXPLORATORY pile and maybe interesting enough for science to prove. 

Electric cars are great on paper; if electricity is powered by solar and wind, and mining and maintenance can be done reasonably, it is an environmental win.Yet despite $4 trillion in subsidies for solar and wind, 80 percent of electricity is still from conventional energy, and that means if electric cars don't have good range, they are worse for the environment than conventional automobiles. The electricity is generated from regular sources, then sent over transmission lines inefficiently, then often converted to 110 volts with losses, then stored in a battery that decreases in efficiency quickly.

It is popular for some political activists to lament the modern Supreme Court(1) but the 1970s and '80s Supreme Court had 5 justices to the left of Sotomayor. That led to a lot of bad law.For trust in science the worst thing from that dark period was their ruling in 1984's Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837, now commonly called "Chevron deference." The decision was so lopsided toward government, and therefore the environmental groups that collude with career government employees, that it gave the White House the power to create laws without needing Congress. It meant that a government agency could create regulations that act like laws if it was in their "mandate."