In modern times, breastfeeding has become more culture war than health epidemiology. Activists have created nearly as much disinformation around infant formula as they have weedkillers and food coloring.
Friends of the Earth was famously started by an anti-nuclear activist who felt like his employer, Sierra Club, did not hate science enough. You read that right. Sierra Club, founded by a rabid eugenicist, was too soft on science for David Brower.
The good news for Americans is that wages have outpaced costs since the Clinton years.
After President Bill Clinton ordered his US Department of Agriculture to make a government "organic" marketing designation for products that used older pesticides and genetic engineering, the industry took off and is now $150 Big Food segment in its own right.
If you are not currently smoking marijuana, do not start. It is a carcinogen, no different than cigarettes and alcohol. Most people recognize its effects on the brain are so broad it is about as safe as lead in drinking water. But if you already have cancer, that relative risk equation may change.
A new paper has correlated birth control pills to binge eating. In 100 percent of controlled clinical studies, more energy consumed than burned causes weight increase, which means birth control pills may be why you got fat. Don't go having unprotected sex as a diet plan, though.
HFO-1234yf, a climate-friendly alternative refrigerant for car air conditioning systems touted by environmental activists, may instead be a greater problem than the products they insisted was causing pollution.
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, commmonly called PFAS, are about 12,000 chemicals, nearly all found in nature, and since the 1940s, a handful have been synthesized for use in various products.
Skip the glossary. Yes, it's the kind of thing editors love because of the famous communication guidance 'assume a lack of vocabulary but not a lack of intelligence' but that is when you're writing for the broad public. Science-fiction readers are smart.
Mesopotamia is Greek for “land between rivers” and indeed it sat between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, what is now basically modern Iraq.
I want that table, I'll say that right out of the gate.You won't see the table on the cover, there is a gaming die and four cars even though only one of them ever drives to the place where all of the important events occur, but the table is the catalyst for the entire book by Sarah Marie Griffin, the crux of everything that happens while trotting out a variety of proxies.
It's obvious that the best way to prevent lifestyle cases of skin cancer is to use sunscreen and avoid tanning beds.
Long before they declared war on vaccines and chemicals, anti-science activists got their first cultural homerun - they got a catchy buzzword to get media to repeat claims that food was killing us.
