Europeans who emigrated to the colonies in America had a dream of religious freedom, denied to them by European elites and government-mandated beliefs, and legal equality, absolutely impossible in England if you were poor, but they also believed in an economic Utopia.That last belief nearly cost them their lives. William Bradford, the first leader of that Massachusetts Bay colony, eventually conceded their socialist ideal failed. Free riders who chose not to work nearly doomed them. By 1621, a year after landing in Massachusetts, they had changed from socialism to a system where each family owned their land and worked it for their family.

The abstract for a new humanities paper published by the former Nazis who now own a surprising chunk of science media (Holtzbrinck Publishing Group) reads like it was created using a postmodernism generator.Maybe it was. It's hard to imagine a human with any critical thinking let this go by, much less the dreaded Reviewer #2, but a pay-to-publish journal like this Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics is really just "editorial review" - the credit card has to clear and then it gets the same level of scrutiny as a paper about astrology gets in an astrology magazine.

A brand of fake cheese - it must be that Europe doesn't require standards of identity so bacon can label itself vegan if cheese can - is making the rounds on social media again because of its virtue signaling to wealthy progressives that they are saving the planet even more ethically.By posting their virtual carbon cost. 

Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy is a prominent physician and long-time evangelist for chemical interventions among trans youth and has been conducting those chemical interventions for nearly two decades.It remains controversial, critics say young people can't provide informed consent for many, many things but Dr. Olson-Kennedy wanted to do a U.S. study similar to one done in Netherlands which found kids given these interventions were happier.(1)

A new paper finds that caloric restriction increases lifespan. It doesn't in humans. The only documented times it increases lifespan is in mice weaned from birth on a starvation diet. Humans are not going to starve their babies.Obesity certainly shortens lifespan but that doesn't make calories a scientific antimetabole. Yet despite this study being in mice, and therefore only EXPLORATORY, evangelists for longevity claims, the strange cousin of Singularity believers, are touting this as if it's meaningful.

Unless you think plants are little people, so you don't understand any science, it is impossible to believe a weedkiller lowers testosterone.Environmental predatorts still sell it to the gullible. Lawsuits are how they make their money. If you do believe in that plants are tiny green people and share a biological pathway and therefore a weedkiller can give you cancer, you don't trust science, you simply want to believe prejudiced epidemiology when it matches your bias against science.

The Biden-Harris administration is under fire from Native-American and agriculture groups for repeating a food shortage fiasco that also occurred during the Obama-Biden administration.The United States Department of Agriculture met with tribal leaders earlier this year and said they were switching to a single warehouse and sole contractor. Native leaders, concerned about a repeat of 2014, protested but USDA went ahead and food shortages, canceled food deliveries, and deliveries of expired products occurred starting in April.Stacy Dean, Deputy Under Secretary of Agriculture for the Federal Nutrition Program 

Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd. has received rare pediatric disease designation for NS-050/NCNP-03, being developed for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Duchenne). The FDA's rare pediatric disease designation is for treatments of serious or life-threatening diseases in children where there are fewer than 200,000 patients in the United States.

While the Biden administration brags about the stock market gains for its voters - and he is smart to do so, nearly 80% of America's wealthiest counties vote Democrat - the less fortunate are feeling the impact of a $4 trillion stimulus plan that was great for government workers but just caused inflation to spike upward for everyone else. Food, for example, is up 44% since Biden took office.

The Biden administration is in its waning days, but he is not letting up on his breathtaking levels of social authoritarianism. It's not bad enough that the average age of the young people who put men on the moon and World War II are no longer adult enough to be off mommy's health insurance, he has now declared that if they buy pipe tobacco they are at risk for cancer. Or becoming a hobbit.So if you are under age 30, get ready to show ID. It is federal law and one more thing store clerks have to obey government about.