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Lee Bishop

I am a Ph.D. chemist (University of California-Berkeley, 2010), and currently research environmental nanotechnology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I write the general-audience science blog ScienceMinusDetails.com and contribute to the techni…

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Why Baby Boomers Need A Hepatitis C Screening

Baby boomers, adults born between 1945 and 1965, are five times more likely to have been exposed to the hepatitis C virus (HCV). As a result, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U…

PESD - If You Have Post Election Stress Disorder, Here Are 5 Things To Do

This election season, people have been blocking and un-friending those on “the other side”, families have been arguing, it's been a lot of stress. Tonight, one side may feel the stress associated…

15,000 Scientists Sign Letter Urging More Action On Climate Change And Other Issues - This Is Positive - Not A Doomsday!

This is a story that's running at the moment - hugely sensationalized and made as pessimistic and gloomy as could be. in many of the papers, especially the sensationalist press, it's presented as a "…

The Homeopathy Beliefs About Neonicotinoids And Honey

If you read a headline declaring that scientists had discovered that up to 75 percent of human food samples were found to be contaminated with some scary-sounding substance, like arsenic, what would…