Government Regulations Could Cause Half Of Small Farms To Fail By 2050
"Whole earth farming” practices are a popular new government mandate. And they will wreck small farmers.
Epidemiology: Microplastics Cause Lung Cancer
Unless you are a cigarette smoker, you can't be 'inhaling' enough polypropylene and polyethylene to impact your lungs even if you live for 7,000 years. That doesn't stop fad claims that microplastics cause lung cancer.
Your Smartphone May Be Off On Your Exercise Calories By 25%
Sorry, Apple. Sorry, Fitbit. You're overcounting calories burned and science shows it.
The Precedent For Creating A 'Conservative' Science Journal
There is a precedent for government involvement in controlling publishing of science results, and it was created by Democrats.
The US Creating Starfleet Academy Sounds Exciting
He didn't call it a Moonshot or a Manhattan Project of Space, that is the kind of language his political opponents use(1), President Trump announcing a U.S. Space Academy invoked something even bolder - Star Trek.
People Who Appropriate Oppression Are Harming Socialization By Their Kids
Actors are famous for manufacturing traumatic situations about every movie they've done but the public builds that into their psychological makeup. So do their kids, and not for the better. A new paper says appropriated oppression is a cultural legacy.
Tax Breaks, Not Subsidies, Spur Innovation
The world has spent $9,000,000,000,000 on alternatives to energy and has very little to show for it.
Navigating Vaccine Guidance
During the Obama administration, he was concerned about vaccines causing autism and it showed when it came to guidance about swine flu vaccines. His administration banned multi-use vials because of his party's insistence that preservatives caused the disorder.
Tariffs Have Been Good For U.S. Whiskey Drinkers
Alcohol is a legitimate class 1 carcinogen but if you are going to roll the dice with cancer, tariffs have made it more affordable. In 2018, the Trump administration began to place retaliatory tariffs on countries that had been penalizing American producers for decades.
Your Brain Is Still Analog
The world around us may be digital, 0s and 1s shaping information, but the delivery mechanism is still analog; electricity and wires. Our brains, including cognition and consciousness, are also.
Halloween Science Is Now In Its 2nd Edition
Halloween is the most rumor-prone of holidays. If you read the folklore that passes as social media, Halloween has its own holiday character, like Santa, but he's named Secret Sadist and putting razor blades in candy bars. Or LSD in...candy bars again.
Lord Lytton, Psychological Genius
Elites say his work is cliché but that only happens when everyone quotes you. His psychological insights also deserve a modern rethink.
The Corny Idea To Replace Food Coloring
No one wants food coloring that dissipates after an hour, a problem for natural alternatives to Red Dye No. 40 and No. 3, and a more natural solution is at hand. But it still requires more of the science activists distrust.
