Posting History for Science Matters
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| DINO Robert F Kennedy Jr attacked Richard Pan, a progressive Democratic state Senator For those living under a rock ( about which, I'd have to ask "why?"), the USA had its so-called mid-term elections, which are state and Federal elections that happen at the halfway point of the US President's term. Unfortunately, instead of the blue... |
SkepticalRaptor | 11/08/2018 | 90 | 16 | - | - |
| Museum Pieces: The Minnesota Iceman In the 1960s, a carnival sideshow exhibit created a sensation that led to an investigation by the Smithsonian Institution, and made fools out of two professional zoologists.
Alas, the museum ... |
Lenny Flank | 11/08/2018 | 13 | 16 | - | - |
| Eight protesters arrested at Monsanto plant in Woodland, CA Yolo County Sheriffs Deputies arrested eight environmental and social justice activists at the main gate to the Woodland Monsanto/Bayer Plant, the world’s largest biotech seed facility, between 7:30 and 8:30 a.m. on October 15.
Deputies took the... |
Dan Bacher | 10/15/2018 | 6 | 11 | - | - |
| Virginia #Climate Crisis Forum: Glaring Divide between US Senate Candidates Kaine & Stewart The science is clear: humanity is driving climate change.
The science is clear: this is creating risks for humanity.
The appropriate responses are debated and argued -- even as there are those who simply deny reality (looking at you, Donald Trump... |
A Siegel | 09/14/2018 | 9 | 9 | - | - |
| Omega-3 supplements – they are probably not very helpful in preventing cardiovascular disease I have been skeptical of supplements for a long period of time. Supplements are generally of low quality, they don’t prevent or cure cancer, they don’t prevent colds, they can’t boost the immune system, and they don’t prevent heart disease. Now there... |
SkepticalRaptor | 07/24/2018 | 61 | 22 | - | - |
| Monsanto will cease to exist ... as 'Monsanto' In 2016, German pharmaceutical company and pesticide maker Bayer announced it would purchase Monsanto for about $60 billion in cash. The merger is coming closer to being fully realized now, and NPR reports on the beginnings of Bayer’s campaign to... |
Walter Einenkel | 06/04/2018 | 31 | 21 | - | - |
| Gopper: Sea Level Rise is Caused by Rocks Falling into the Ocean Every time the Goppers convince me that they cannot possibly get any more stupid, they always manage to surprise me…..
The Earth is not warming. The White Cliffs of Dover are tumbling into the ... |
Lenny Flank | 05/18/2018 | 12 | 12 | - | - |
| It's been 20 years since Andrew Wakefield's "vaccine causes autism" study – it's still fraudulent I'm a couple of months late with this article because of life and reasons, but a bit over 20 years ago, in February 1998, Andrew Wakefield published his infamous article in Lancet, which was eventually retracted in 2010. He stated that "onset of... |
SkepticalRaptor | 05/01/2018 | 201 | 118 | - | - |
| In a happy accident, scientists have created an enzyme that can eat plastic bottles A happy accident has led to a breakthrough in how we may be able to handle some of our global plastic pollution. The Guardian reports on the international research team that made the serendipitous discovery.
The new research was spurred by the... |
Walter Einenkel | 04/17/2018 | 211 | 283 | - | - |
| Biological plausibility – a keystone of medical and vaccine research How many times have you heard tiresome tropes about the HPV vaccine causing this or that? No matter how many times we debunk the nonsense, it persists. One of the critical points I try to make is that before an anti-vaccine claim can be made, there... |
SkepticalRaptor | 02/27/2018 | 39 | 20 | - | - |
| Study: Anti-Vaxxers Tend to be Conservatives
ABSTRACT:
In light of the increasing refusal of some parents to vaccinate children, public health strategies have focused on increasing knowledge and awareness based on a “knowledge-deficit” |
Lenny Flank | 02/11/2018 | 186 | 54 | - | - |
| Daily Bucket: Fish skins and acupuncture help heal wildlife burned in Thomas Fire Vets used tilapia fish skins and corn husks to cover burns on the paws of two bears and a mountain lion rescued during the Thomas Fire. One bear had third-degree burns so severe the animal was unable to stand. So California Department of Fish and... |
Besame | 01/26/2018 | 90 | 80 | - | - |
| Did Gardasil kill Colton Berrett? Biomedical scientific evidence says no. As I mentioned in a previous article, reading articles about vaccines leads to many tragic and heartfelt stories. But as a scientist, I have to separate the emotional aspects of a story from the science-based evidence. This post is particularly tough... |
SkepticalRaptor | 01/18/2018 | 26 | 30 | - | - |
| Oprah is a science denier – that's a problem for me A few nights ago, Oprah Winfrey, billionaire media personality, gave a speech during a Hollywood award show, where fellow millionaires and billionaires get dressed up in ten thousand dollar gowns and tuxes to pat each other on the back. Within... |
SkepticalRaptor | 01/10/2018 | 1206 | 399 | - | - |
| Prenatal vitamins may reduce the risk of autism in children. And vaccines still do not cause autism If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know I'm not exactly a fan of vitamin supplements. They are expensive, and they don't do what people want to believe they do. They do not reduce the risk of any cancer. They do not improve bone health. But... |
SkepticalRaptor | 01/09/2018 | 28 | 26 | - | - |
| Raw water – another ludicrous and dangerous fad I thought I've heard it all about food fads. GMO-free salt! Gluten-free cauliflower crust pizza. MSG-free honey. Raw milk diets. I suppose what we need next is an expensive gluten-free, GMO-free, MSG-free, pure organic raw water.
And guess what?... |
SkepticalRaptor | 01/08/2018 | 95 | 50 | - | - |
| Do cell phones cause miscarriages? Based on one paper, no evidence. It may appear that scientific skeptics are always criticizing any newly published scientific article that doesn't fit some imaginary point of view. Personally, I evaluate and critique a lot of "scientific" articles that make the rounds on the... |
SkepticalRaptor | 01/07/2018 | 144 | 30 | - | - |
| Aromatherapy: Street Prophets Coffee Hour Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour. This is an open thread where we can discuss what’s happening in our lives, what we’ve been working on, and our opinions on current events. I thought ... |
Ojibwa | 01/06/2018 | 17 | 12 | - | - |
| Climate Change & Security: 2018 Iranian edition Iran is in turmoil.
People are protesting in the streets — calling for more openness and, even more strongly, policies to boost economic performance. As to the latter, for example, frustrations over what are seen to be as inadequate economic boosts... |
A Siegel | 01/05/2018 | 6 | 15 | - | - |
| Does canola oil cause Alzheimer's disease? Dubious evidence Food fads make me want to scream, cry, and hide in a cabin in the mountains. MSG is safe. And high fructose corn syrup is just an awful name for sugar. And only a small number of people have a real gluten sensitivity. And now a new paper has caused the... |
SkepticalRaptor | 01/04/2018 | 339 | 119 | - | - |
| Mississippi vaccine exemption – no religion allowed Mississippi is not exactly one of the USA's highest ranked states for health issues. The state ranks 47th in public health. It ranks 47th in smoking. It ranks 47th in health care quality. At least it's consistent! Other surveys put Mississippi dead... |
SkepticalRaptor | 12/27/2017 | 31 | 26 | - | - |
| Violating the Sacred: GMO Chestnuts for the Holidays? By BJ McManama, Indigenous Environmental Network with Anne Petermann and Ruddy Turnstone, Global Justice Ecology Project
“Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose…” We don’t even have to provide the score for you to hear... |
Anne Petermann | 12/22/2017 | 23 | 2 | - | - |
| The Deadly Cost of Censoring the CDC Do you want your medical treatment to be based on science? The Trump administration disagrees. It apparently banned the top US public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), from using 7 words, including “evidence-based”... |
DrGlebTsipursky | 12/19/2017 | 6 | 6 | - | - |
| Sugar causes cancer – not so fast there, what does science say As you probably would guess, when I read articles in science, I tend to emphasize research on vaccines, cancer, and a few other related issues. There's so much information out there, one has to focus or there will not be enough time to watch college... |
SkepticalRaptor | 12/11/2017 | 56 | 18 | - | - |
| Climate Activists Occupying House Offices re #GOPTaxScam (and fossil foolish interests) The GOP Tax Plan (or “Deficit Augmentation to Enrich Super Rich (DATES Rich) Act) is horrid on so many grounds — from devastating graduate education, to massively increasing economic inequality, to setting the path for destruction of Social Security... |
A Siegel | 12/04/2017 | 2 | 9 | - | - |
| Champ: America's Loch Ness Monster Lying along the border between New York and Vermont (and extending a few miles into Canada) is Lake Champlain, one of the largest and deepest freshwater lakes in the northeast. It was the site of ... |
Lenny Flank | 11/14/2017 | 9 | 9 | - | - |
| Glyphosate causes cancer? – large scientific study says no One of the tropes of the pseudoscience world is that glyphosate causes cancer – but what does real science say? Well, numerous large epidemiological studies have yet to provide evidence of a link that would convince us that the herbicide has any link... |
SkepticalRaptor | 11/13/2017 | 86 | 37 | - | - |
| Abbreviated Science Round-up: Zombie ant fungus, rare dolphins, and fossil moles It’s not Sunday morning, and I’m not looking at editorial pages. Instead, this is intended as a review of articles appearing this week in science journals, including but not limited to Nature, Science, the Proceedings of the National Academy of... |
Mark Sumner | 11/10/2017 | 97 | 135 | - | - |
| Study Finds No Apparent Link Between Glyphosate and Cancer
Abstract
Background
Glyphosate is the most commonly used herbicide worldwide, with both residential and agricultural uses. In 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer classified ... |
Lenny Flank | 11/10/2017 | 68 | 5 | - | - |
| Insects disappearing: pesticides, climate change, ...???? Friday night, at my niece’s birthday party, the conversation turned (not started by me … surprisingly) to news from Germany: the insects are disappearing.
abundance of flying insects has plunged by three-quarters over the past 25 years
In... |
A Siegel | 10/23/2017 | 10 | 20 | - | - |
| Trump's EPA to Flint: let the bed bugs bite (to scientists: don't study/mention climate change) If Trump weren’t bad enough,
The United States is currently experiencing a nightmarish epidemic of disgusting blood sucking parasites, and no, I am not talking about our politicians. There is a full blown bed bug epidemic happening all across... |
A Siegel | 10/23/2017 | 5 | 17 | - | - |
| "And it confounds the #science": @RealDonaldTrump tweeting, #climate denial Amid the need to response and help people suffering the massive real-time #climate impacts in Houston (and Mumbai/SouthAsia and ...), a telling, on-target, and eminently toe-tapping perspective on @RealDonaldTrump from The Parody Project.
With... |
A Siegel | 10/23/2017 | 7 | 19 | - | - |
| My Total Eclipse Experience I saw the Total Eclipse of the Heart Sun with my friend Joel in Black Rock Campground in Boise National Forests which is 20 miles up a washboard rough dirt road outside of Idaho City, Idaho.
Joel and I went to university together. He lives in... |
jtg | 10/23/2017 | 24 | 29 | - | - |
| New Mexico decides to allow evolution back into state's educational science standards News Channel 10 is reporting good news: New Mexico won’t be eliminating evolution from the state’s science standards. This just happened. A couple of days ago. In 2017.
The Public Education Department says final standards will restore references... |
Walter Einenkel | 10/19/2017 | 56 | 58 | - | - |
| Michigan mom jailed – it's not about vaccines, it's about contempt of court A mother signed a custody agreement that included her agreement to vaccinate her son. For over a year, the mother did not do so. For this refusal, and after giving her a last chance to comply, a judge had the Michigan mom jailed for seven days. She was... |
SkepticalRaptor | 10/08/2017 | 20 | 21 | - | - |
| Report blames failure to vaccinate for troubling rise in U.S. measles cases A steady uptick in the number of measles cases in the U.S. in recent years has primarily been driven by people who haven’t been vaccinated.
Those are the findings of a new report published in JAMA Pediatrics which found that measles, which was... |
Craig Hunter | 10/04/2017 | 93 | 82 | - | - |
| The power of STEM engagement can bring a smile to your face As a rare diversion from 'energy' focus, here is a story that should bring a smile to anyone concerned about science, science education (STEM), empowering women in science, entomology, how social-networking is changing the world, and, well, good... |
A Siegel | 10/04/2017 | 9 | 10 | - | - |
| The damage done to Puerto Rico's power grid alone is catastrophic US citizens needing help in Puerto Rico probably won’t be able to register with FEMA online or by phone anytime soon. It’s been lights out since Hurricane Maria roared from one end of the island to the other last week. Mile after mile of residential... |
Steven Andrew | 09/30/2017 | 101 | 114 | - | - |
| Genetically modified gluten – delicious irony Gluten free diets, for about 99% of the population, are a pseudoscientific food fad that has captured the guts of those who consume any food quackery that makes the rounds. However, for those who have a medically diagnosed gluten sensitivity, there is... |
SkepticalRaptor | 09/28/2017 | 36 | 12 | - | - |
| New Mexico's proposed science standards forget to mention things like climate change and evolution Things like the age of our solar system (4.6 billion years old, thank you, Google), and the nature of our changing climate (the temperature is “rising,” than you, ExxonMobil), have been suspiciously omitted in New Mexico’s revised curriculum standards... |
Walter Einenkel | 09/28/2017 | 11 | 13 | - | - |
| Veterinary acupuncture – nothing more than animal cruelty When I write about junk medicine and pseudoscience, I generally stick to human medicine. Recently, I wrote about the asinine people who refuse canine vaccinations, which led me to search for other alternative veterinary medicine that mirrored those for... |
SkepticalRaptor | 09/25/2017 | 181 | 20 | - | - |
| Trump Administration Silencing Climate Science: data is in Donald Trump's and his GOP acolytes anti-science attitudes created a flurry of activity in the interregnum prior to their White House occupation to capture key U.S. government science (especially climate science) information on servers accessible to... |
A Siegel | 09/18/2017 | 7 | 27 | - | - |
| Turning one's back on science: the New Mexico derivative In the name of science, school systems -- state school boards typically -- around the nation are working on science standards. Much is made, by many, of American education's need to focus on STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) (and, often... |
A Siegel | 09/18/2017 | 15 | 33 | - | - |
| Trump nominates climate science denier to head NASA In another Friday dump, Team Trump’s choice for NASA: Representative Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK), a true climate zombie. Here is material from his statement which called on President Obama to cut climate science funding to move it to weather research.... |
A Siegel | 09/02/2017 | 51 | 88 | - | - |
| Nope, Yellowstone still isn't going to erupt The Yellowstone cycle of dumb begins anew.
1. Minor uplift and or earthquake
2. Someone on the internet notices
3. Hysteria, conspiracy, and ridiculousness
4. Scientists facepalm, rend their hair, wreck their edges, and sob.
So there are... |
terrypinder | 07/07/2017 | 58 | 65 | - | - |
| House Science Democrats hold (real) Climate Science/Economics Hearing (zero GOP presence) This morning, House Democratic Representatives are holding a climate hearing that demonstrates the nature and quality of what real science oversight would like if the US government were run by people living in reality.
The hearing... |
A Siegel | 06/20/2017 | 4 | 26 | - | - |
| CENSORED: Team Trump takes climate out of science statement The US Geological Service issued a press release last Friday on an article/study about the threats sea-level rise create for US coasts, In Next Decades, Frequency of Coastal Flooding Will Double Globally.
Global climate change drives sea-level... |
A Siegel | 05/22/2017 | 22 | 80 | - | - |
| 50-year-old climate model had it right. But, then as now, facts made no difference to policymakers The views of a significant minority of the U.S. population have proved stubbornly impervious to the findings of scientific analysis of climate change. This wouldn’t matter except that a key element of that minority, the Republican Party—in and out... |
Meteor Blades | 03/16/2017 | 147 | 315 | - | - |
| Government’s helping hand fostering 21st century prosperity: @ARPAE example Government programs impact people’s lives in uncountable ways. These range from those most highly visible firemen on the streets to the semi-hidden code developments that lower year after year the risks of fire in our homes. The extent to which... |
A Siegel | 02/28/2017 | 4 | 13 | - | - |
| From Dark Ages to 21st Century, from CPAC to @ARPAE This morning, the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPAE) Energy Innovations Summit will begin. This annual three-day event brings together many of the world’s leading thinkers, scientists, tinkerers, business-process gurus when it comes to... |
A Siegel | 02/27/2017 | 4 | 10 | - | - |
| Natural News conspiracy theory – Google is the deep state As many of us pro-science bloggers have written, the malodorous, fetid cesspool of pseudoscience, Mike Adams’ Natural News website has been blacklisted, stripped, blacklisted, and delisted from Google searches (as of 26 February 2017). Of course, this... |
SkepticalRaptor | 02/26/2017 | 46 | 54 | - | - |
| New York Nukes: 2 Reactors Down, 4 Still Standing After half a century of lawsuits, petitions, letters, public testimony and dozens of radioactive 'oopses' at the Indian Point nuclear facility just 40 miles north of Manhattan, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Eric Schneiderman and the environmental... |
Joieau | 02/25/2017 | 49 | 21 | - | - |
| Google blacklisted Natural News – hilarity from the crackpot ensues Natural News, a website run by Mike Adams, the self styled Health Ranger, is a festering cesspool of junk medicine, pseudoscience and conspiracy theories. There isn’t one positive thing I can say about the website, but there’s very good news – Google... |
SkepticalRaptor | 02/23/2017 | 38 | 20 | - | - |
| More evidence that the MMR vaccine is unrelated to autism I have been unwavering on this one point – there is no link between the MMR vaccine and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). They are simply unrelated, based on high quality evidence published in respected peer-reviewed journals across the world. To dispute... |
SkepticalRaptor | 02/21/2017 | 64 | 17 | - | - |
| Anti-vaccine nonsense – Robert F Kennedy Jr and Robert De Niro get together Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Robert De Niro just had a press conference to push their anti-vaccine bullshit on the public. This time, they’re offering US$100,000 to anyone who can show that mercury in vaccines are safe. Well, they can write me the check... |
SkepticalRaptor | 02/15/2017 | 49 | 32 | - | - |
| Oklahoma desperately needs @JimInhofe snowballs From Donald Trump to Sean Hannity to Harold Hamm to Sen.
Jim Inhofe (R-Exxon), one of the favorite global warming science denial idiocies is "Ha ... if there's so much warming, why's there snow outside." Jim Inhofe famously had his grandchildren... |
A Siegel | 02/15/2017 | 17 | 22 | - | - |
| The adult vaccine schedule – the CDC wants to protect you too Generally, when I write about vaccines, it’s about protecting children’s lives from vaccine preventable diseases. That itself is a noble goal for vaccines. But in case you didn’t know, there is also a CDC schedule for adult vaccines, which is as... |
SkepticalRaptor | 02/13/2017 | 55 | 30 | - | - |
| Science - It's Political, Like It Or Not There’s an editorial in Forbes that spells it out: supporting science is a political act these days. Emily Willingham has five reasons why it matters. She’s taking issue with those who think Science should be above the fray, should be above... |
xaxnar | 02/10/2017 | 30 | 14 | - | - |
| Fukushima Unit-2 Containment Cripples Another Robot Last Friday [Feb. 3] Orcas George published a diary on the then-latest news from Fukushima that reached the rec list -
Fukushima Reactor #2 pressure vessel breached, rising to "unimaginable" levels of radiation.
The issue was news reports in the... |
Joieau | 02/09/2017 | 56 | 49 | - | - |
| High fructose corn syrup and cancer – is it a thing? I’ve written boatloads of articles about cancer, most of which say “this or that doesn’t cause cancer,” and that “there’s only a handful of good ways to prevent it.” To be honest, if I see any news report that makes a claim that something prevents or... |
SkepticalRaptor | 02/08/2017 | 164 | 23 | - | - |
| Retired NOAA scientist feels slighted, sets world afire in revenge Take a good look at the front page of today’s Daily Mail. Yes, children, this august institution is now to be our nation’s primary science source, driving the well-being of the planet and all who dwell upon it:
The House Science Committee... |
BoGardiner | 02/05/2017 | 43 | 37 | - | - |
| #Resist -- Make America Smart Again Edition -- 2/5/17 Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence—love of truth displaying itself in the constant endeavor to arrive at a more exact knowledge of the world of mind and matter around us, and reverence, because... |
houyhnhnm | 02/05/2017 | 45 | 33 | - | - |
| The Revolution Will Be Open-Source: Tech Teams Up With Progressives to Fight Trump I’m a journalist at the science/tech/culture site Inverse.com. Here’s a long excerpt of my new feature story about the rapid rise of online tools meant to resist Trump and take back the Democratic Party.
This intensely partisan election season saw... |
Blue Tuesday | 02/04/2017 | 11 | 34 | - | - |
| A Follow-Up to an Earlier Diary on How People Understand Science A follow up to this diary:
An Interesting Study on How People Understand Science
www.dailykos.com/…
Facts Are the Reason Why Science is Losing During the Current War on Reason:
A ... |
Lenny Flank | 02/04/2017 | 28 | 16 | - | - |
| Fukushima Reactor #2 pressure vessel breached, rising to "unimaginable" levels of radiation. Radiation at Fukushima Reactor #2
Radiation levels inside a damaged reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station are at their highest since the plant suffered a triple meltdown almost six years ago.
The facility’s operator, Tokyo... |
Orcas George | 02/03/2017 | 525 | 367 | - | - |
| Photo Diary: Dealey Plaza/Sixth Floor Museum For my generation (though I was only two years old at the time) the assassination of John F Kennedy in 1963 was a decisive turning point, when the hopeful optimism of the Camelot years ended, the ... |
Lenny Flank | 02/02/2017 | 17 | 6 | - | - |
| The GMO scientific consensus – it's unequivocal and overwhelming I have been writing about the GMO scientific consensus for quite some time, because this scientific consensus for the safety of GMO crops is so overwhelming that it’s almost impossible to ignore. Let me put it this way – if you accept the enormous... |
SkepticalRaptor | 01/31/2017 | 150 | 25 | - | - |
| An Interesting Study on How People Understand Science This study was released a few months ago—a friend of mine just sent it to me. I found it quite interesting:
When science becomes too easy: Science popularization inclines laypeople to underrate their dependence on experts.
Abstract Science... |
Lenny Flank | 01/29/2017 | 36 | 16 | - | - |
| This week in science: science marches on? After last week, it should be clear to anyone with a pulse and intermittent cable or Internet access that science is now under full assault by the usual suspects. Emboldened by their slim electoral win in the form of popular vote loser Donald Trump,... |
Steven Andrew | 01/29/2017 | 26 | 58 | - | - |
| Adding more GHG layers topping 408ppm when we should be stripping down to 350ppm & below As Donald Trump continues to drive news cycles with #AlternativeFacts and installs perhaps the most anti-#science government that modern human history has seen in a major government (and this comment re 'perhaps' is that jury is out in comparison with... |
A Siegel | 01/28/2017 | 6 | 15 | - | - |
| Alternative facts – skeptics have been dealing with this for years Alternative facts, what most of us would call outright lies or misinformation, are the new standard of truthfulness coming out of the Donald Trump administration. It started when Kellyanne Conway, one of the numerous Trump talking heads who think... |
SkepticalRaptor | 01/26/2017 | 24 | 10 | - | - |
| What Physicist Richard Feynman Would Say About US Scientists Opposing Trump's Attacks on Science One of the turning points in my life, as it affected my decision to major in physics, was reading a book of talks and writings of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, The Pleasure of ... |
pierre9045 | 01/26/2017 | 18 | 38 | - | - |
| Scientists Plan March On Washington. You're Invited If You Believe In Empirical Science Too. A “Scientists March On Washington” is in planning stages as a response to gag orders emanating from Trump. Canada had similar gag orders under the Conservative Harper and the backlash lead to the current liberal Trudeau government presently seated.... |
Seashells | 01/25/2017 | 19 | 30 | - | - |
| Stalin would be proud: @TeamTrump moving forward w/anti-#science #NewSpeak censorship Core to #MAGA, @TeamTrump encompasses many of the worst anti-science pontificators and activists not just in the United States, but globally. Core to this is climate science denial. Thus, as Trump (falsely) took the Oath of Office (and immediately... |
A Siegel | 01/25/2017 | 11 | 16 | - | - |
| Girl Scout cookies and GMO – going anti-STEM Of all the icons of American life, buying Girl Scout cookies is one of the annual obligations of life. Americans buy these cookies from parents selling for their daughters, from uniformed Girl Scouts in front of the grocery store, or from a family... |
SkepticalRaptor | 01/23/2017 | 108 | 18 | - | - |
| Vaccine skeptics – no they aren't, please stop saying it I get so tired of this, the press describing vaccine deniers as “vaccine skeptics.” I wish the press would stop doing this, but no matter how much we say it, we continue to see it. I took the cantankerous Orac’s suggestion to Google “vaccine skeptic”... |
SkepticalRaptor | 01/19/2017 | 25 | 32 | - | - |
| Trade renegotiation - is it really about jobs or GMO? NPR Morning Edition was interviewing the Kansas GOP Senator Jerry Moran this morning on Wilbur Ross for Commerce. There was one very small tidbit that led me to understand what the GOP means by revisiting NAFTA.
He (Wilbur Ross) and I had this... |
tjlord | 01/19/2017 | 37 | 1 | - | - |
| Can Donald Trump change vaccine policy? Yeah, he can. Yesterday, we were all focused on the huge kerfuffle with Robert F Kennedy Jr, who may or may not have been asked to chair a vaccine safety panel. But, as we’ve shown before, when it comes to Donald Trump and vaccines, it is clear where the... |
SkepticalRaptor | 01/11/2017 | 119 | 48 | - | - |
| Trump reportedly asks anti-vaxxer to head vaccine safety commission Mostly lost in the heavy stream of news happening in real time or leaking out Tuesday, a famous Democratic name said he’d be working with Donald Trump on an issue that shouldn’t be Democratic, Republican, or bipartisan: Known anti-vaxxer Robert F.... |
Laura Clawson | 01/11/2017 | 86 | 32 | - | - |
| Trump's new chair of 'vaccination safety' believes debunked autism-vaccine theory This is being reported.
If you don’t already know, Robert F Kennedy Jr., while a Democrat, has a very public blindspot: vaccines.
Kennedy, who criticized Mr. Trump during the election campaign, has also written a book and promoted a... |
Walter Einenkel | 01/10/2017 | 193 | 64 | - | - |
| Thanks anti-vaxxers! Mexico may end up wanting that wall as TX may be on verge of measles outbreak According to Baylor College researcher Peter Hotez, Texas is high on the list of places trending towards unleashing a major measles outbreak.
Could large-scale measles outbreaks and deaths return to the US? The measles virus is one of the most... |
Walter Einenkel | 01/09/2017 | 45 | 29 | - | - |
| Fossil fuel company bribed top Cuomo aide to win nuclear plant closure From Environmental Progress comes a shocker: according to an indictment filed by the US Attorney in Manhattan last September 22, Todd Howe, a top aide to New York governor Andrew Cuomo, received ... |
Keith Pickering | 01/07/2017 | 32 | 15 | - | - |
| Jon Rappoport attacks GMOs and medicine – should we care? For faithful readers of this diary, you know I try to keep focus on a small field of science – vaccines, GMOs, alternative medicine, and whatever strikes my fancy. I get all excited when a couple of my interests intersect, like GMO vaccines. Then I... |
SkepticalRaptor | 01/04/2017 | 39 | 8 | - | - |
| CDC director Thomas Frieden resigns – time for another anti-science Trump appointment CDC director Thomas Frieden has announced his resignation from his position at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The federal agency's main goal is to protect public health and safety through the control and prevention of disease, injury,... |
SkepticalRaptor | 01/02/2017 | 29 | 27 | - | - |
| Trump's budget director wants the government to stop funding scientific research How do you prove you're really the anti-science administration? It’s not enough just to deny climate change or spout anti-evolution slogans—any Republican can do that much. To be a serious member of the anti-science brigade, you need to stop funding... |
Mark Sumner | 12/19/2016 | 374 | 256 | - | - |
| The new McCarthyism: Are you now trying or have you ever tried to stop global warming? President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition team has circulated an unusual 74-point questionnaire at the Department of Energy that requests the names of all employees and contractors who have attended climate change policy conferences, as well as... |
Simplify | 12/12/2016 | 15 | 26 | - | - |
| Turns out that Breitbart article the House Science Committee tweeted out is a con job Over the past many years, scientists have piled up evidence and data that point to humanity’s responsibility in warming trends to our planet’s climate. Republicans, backed by fossil fuel concerns and a base that is afraid that science will kill Santa... |
Walter Einenkel | 12/05/2016 | 268 | 263 | - | - |
| Vitamin supplements, a great addition to alternative medicine I have read recently several people claiming that you are wasting your money on vitamins and alternative medicine doesn’t work.
I start my story 28 years ago. I had just gone to the dentist and he told me I was going to have my gums cut back as the... |
washingtonliberal | 12/04/2016 | 103 | 5 | - | - |
| Flat Earth Medicine in charge at Health & Human Services (& @WashingtonPost ignoring this) PEOTUS Trump has named Representative Tom Price (R-GA) to be his nominee to be the Secretary of Health & Human Services (HHS). As a quick look, he seems ever so reasonable: he is a surgeon (e.g., medical knowledge & experience) and has actually... |
A Siegel | 12/01/2016 | 8 | 15 | - | - |
| When it comes to #Climate #SciComm, @JimmyKimmel hits it out of the park ... The climate denial-o-sphere, most prominently with the eminent scientific wisdom of Sarah Palin, has been trying to create buzz with “Climate Hustler” — a truthiness and falsehood-laden “documentary” that had a “premiere” night Monday that, well, fell... |
A Siegel | 12/01/2016 | 8 | 31 | - | - |
| Arctic Sea Ice Collapse Has Destabilized the Stratospheric & Lower Atmospheric Circulations Arctic sea ice extent, area and volume has collapsed to record low levels for November as warm Atlantic ocean water has pushed into Arctic seas that used to be ice covered. Sea ice cover is also low on the Pacific side.
The warm Arctic sea water... |
FishOutofWater | 11/16/2016 | 256 | 338 | - | - |
| **** CFPs and Call For Participation ... faculty for DAILY KOS UNIVERSITY **** My history in this group, DKU, has been as a caretaker and happened only because I just tried to carry this group over from DK3-DK4, and now that we’re in DK5, perhaps there are some faculty, ex-faculty. researchers, or interested fellow travelers who... |
annieli | 11/15/2016 | 2 | 5 | - | - |
| Study: Nutritional Supplements Have Little Benefit www.nytimes.com/…
In an editorial entitled “The Supplement Paradox: Negligible Benefits, Robust Consumption” accompanying the new report, Dr. Pieter A. Cohen, of Cambridge Health Alliance ... |
Lenny Flank | 11/14/2016 | 50 | 7 | - | - |
| Antiscience Donald Trump elected President – man the science barricades I disappeared for a few days after the election of a man who espoused racism, xenophobia and misogyny as the reasons to vote for him. His actual policy proposals were threadbare and, if he really believed them, we are looking a historical dismantling... |
SkepticalRaptor | 11/13/2016 | 9 | 9 | - | - |
| Silver vs. Wang: from polls to politics We’re screwed, and we have a lot of deep issues to think and argue about. Most are so hard to resolve that we are likely to slip into the sorts of mutual recriminations that have plagued many recent exchanges here. The question of how to read polling... |
docmidwest | 11/13/2016 | 10 | 6 | - | - |
| Banning GMO crops would not just raise food prices—it would also add to our greenhouse gas emissions A new study out of Purdue University says that banning GMO crops around the world would raise the costs of food while also lifting the amount of carbon dioxide we put into the atmosphere.
Using a model to assess the economic and environmental... |
Walter Einenkel | 11/07/2016 | 138 | 15 | - | - |
| Why Are Taxpayers Being Asked to Pay to Promote a Failed Ag Technology? Last weekend (Oct. 29), the New York Times ran a piece on how the biotech industry has failed to deliver on its promises for GMO crops. The article followed less than a month after the biotech industry asked congressional leaders for $3 million in... |
Katherine Paul | 11/04/2016 | 15 | 15 | - | - |
| The Kochs’ Doubt Machine and WSJ’s War Against CO2 Science There’s a new op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that, like so many others, has fossil-fuel-funded authors and fossil-fuel-favored arguments. With a headline decrying “The Phony War Against CO2,” it’s a boring rehash of the easily debunked myth that... |
ClimateDenierRoundup | 11/02/2016 | 1 | 14 | - | - |
| GMO's fail to measure up. The NYT reports:
But an extensive examination by The New York Times indicates that the debate has missed a more basic problem — genetic modification in the United States and Canada has not accelerated increases in crop yields or led to an overall... |
JayFarquharson | 11/01/2016 | 106 | 9 | - | - |
| Don't Trust the Feds on GMOs, Pesticides and Chemicals “. . . new chemicals come from our laboratories in an endless stream; almost 500 annually find their way into actual use in the United States alone…500 new chemicals to which the bodies of men and animals are required somehow to adapt each year,... |
Ronnie Cummins | 10/30/2016 | 65 | 3 | - | - |
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