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Red Alert Fatigue - Why Americans Are Getting Immune To Political Hysteria

Science 2.0 - Dec 20 2024 - 04:12

“I am definitely not following the news anymore,” one patient told me when I asked about her political news consumption in the weeks before the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

This conversation happened around the time I talked with a local TV channel about why we saw fewer political yard signs during this year’s election season, compared with past ones.

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She's Not Going To Propose This Holiday And Here's Why

Science 2.0 - Dec 19 2024 - 17:12

The Christmas period isn’t just for presents, sparkling lights and too much festive food – it’s also prime time for couples to get engaged. And for heterosexual couples, this is likely to happen in a specific way. The man will do the asking.

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Trump Bump Economic Confidence? Republican Presidents Correlated To Fertility Boost

Science 2.0 - Dec 19 2024 - 16:12
A few years ago I noted that French motility was in freefall, down 30% in 30 years, and it was due in large part to the vast quantities of "organic" pesticides they consumed as the country switched to more organic food.

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Last Minute Christmas Gift: Build An Orgonne Accumulator

Science 2.0 - Dec 19 2024 - 15:12
Looking for a last-minute Christmas gift? Doctor Wilhelm Reich, who claimed to be the discoverer of orgone energy (e.g. what other hippies in eastern nations call "chi" and in western nations call "life energy") created the Orgone Accumulator, an alternating wood/metal layered hexagon that absorbed energy from the aether - basically The Force that Boomers like George Lucas still believed in when he was making the original "Star Wars" trilogy - and directed it at people inside.

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California's Dairy State of Emergency Is Because They Deny Pasteurization Science Like They Denied Vaccines

Science 2.0 - Dec 19 2024 - 11:12
On this day in 1768, eight years before the Declaration of Independence, an anonymous article in the Boston Gazette protested the military presence in Boston as a violation of civil liberties.

In 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom has issued another "state of emergency", this time over bird flu...in Louisiana.

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Christmas Tree Syndrome: America Is So Healthy Air Filter Companies Need To Claim Christmas Trees Are Harming You

Science 2.0 - Dec 18 2024 - 09:12
Environmentalism is a $3 billion a year industry and the trial lawyers they help are orders of magnitude greater. What is the last public health win they gave us? Name a hysteria, from dying bees to BPA to DDT, and I can show you where actions were taken over the objections of scientists, not because science showed harm.

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'We Love Renewables But...' - Sweden Signals Going Back To Science

Science 2.0 - Dec 17 2024 - 15:12
Ebba Busch, Swedish Deputy PM&Minister for Energy, says they need to go back to conventional energy, especially if they're going to continue to carry countries like Germany, that closed their nuclear plants.

Their decade-long focus on wind has caused prices to soar and reliability to decline, and even calls out Germany's Green Guru and Vice Chancellor, the philosopher Robert Habeck, PhD.


Ebba Busch, Swedish Minister for Energy, Business and Industry and Deputy Prime Minister

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Of Momshells And Snowmanning: How Holidays Change Popular Language

Science 2.0 - Dec 17 2024 - 12:12
I rarely win when it comes to cultural language stuff. Before 1999, an attractive older woman, for example, was to me a "Momshell" and no woman had any objection to a portmanteau of mom and bombshell (if they heard it - but a woman should not hear it, or your charm goes way down) yet after 1999's "American Pie" film the vulgar acronym "MILF" became the default. I have maintained for decades that we are worse off for it. If a young man used it in my presence where the woman could hear, I'd correct him. Not in a mean way, just by explaining there is a term that doesn't make him seem crass.

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Toxic Free Future Math Error Means Your Spatula Is Safe After All, But It Always Was

Science 2.0 - Dec 16 2024 - 12:12
If you're an agenda-driven, lawyer-funded epidemiologist and really want to move the needle in media on scaring people, be so bad at math - literally the only thing an epidemiologist does - that you are off by an order of magnitude.

Because if 60 x 7000 equals 42,000, you're either in third grade or you are an anti-science mullah like everyone at Toxic-Free Future, who know a journal they pay to publish in isn't doing any peer review, and know that media allies like the SEO tinkerers who rewrite press releases for LA Times and Salon will be excited about the chance to pad their pageview quota.

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Free Health Care Is Not Enough: High Food Inflation Leads To Fewer Cancer Screenings

Science 2.0 - Dec 13 2024 - 05:12
Over 50,000,000 Americans get subsidized or free health under the Affordable Care Act but that doesn't mean usage of preventive care increased across the board. Instead, a new analysis found that the inflationary spike which led to much higher costs for housing, food, and utilities are barriers.

Data from 186 community-based health organizations in 13 states found that despite higher rates of primary care visits, patients experiencing social risks like concerns about food or rent were less likely to complete screenings when recommended by doctors.

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Free Health Care Is Not Enough: Hide Food Inflation Leads To Fewer Cancer Screenings

Science 2.0 - Dec 13 2024 - 05:12
Over 50,000,000 Americans get subsidized or free health under the Affordable Care Act but that doesn't mean usage of preventive care increased across the board. Instead, a new analysis found that the inflationary spike which led to much higher costs for housing, food, and utilities are barriers.

Data from 186 community-based health organizations in 13 states found that despite higher rates of primary care visits, patients experiencing social risks like concerns about food or rent were less likely to complete screenings when recommended by doctors.

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Is Reverse Chirality Research a Legitimate Worry Like Gain of Function or Hype Like Recombinant DNA Concern?

Science 2.0 - Dec 12 2024 - 16:12
Nearly 50 years ago, Democrats wanted to ban recombinant DNA technology while scientists wanted to make insulin without needing a pancreas from a steer. Both sides won. Beef pancreas is no longer needed and the FDA still treats GMOs like they are a 'cure for cancer' claim in the 1970s while using high costs and bureaucracy to prevent small companies from getting into the insulin market.

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Is Reverse Chirality Research a Legitimate Worry Like Gain of Function or Hype Like Recombinant DNA Concern?

Science 2.0 - Dec 12 2024 - 16:12
Nearly 50 years ago, Democrats wanted to ban recombinant DNA technology while scientists wanted to make insulin without needing a pancreas from a steer. Both sides won. Beef pancreas is no longer needed and the FDA still treats GMOs like they are a 'cure for cancer' claim in the 1970s while using high costs and bureaucracy to prevent small companies from getting into the insulin market.

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Nanopesticides May Be In Our Organic Farming Future

Science 2.0 - Dec 12 2024 - 11:12
Friends of the Earth and other litigation groups opposed to science are cheering the closure of AquaBounty's AquAdvantage salmon - the poster-child (decades of regulatory roadblocks) for how the US regulatory system is manipulated by lawyers to hold back technology and medicine - but progress marches on despite the public relations campaign by Greenpeace, NRDC, and others who stand against it.

Their persistent efforts to get pesticides either banned or regulated so tightly they act as bans have been wildly successful during the Biden years, but with Chevron Deference overturned at the Supreme Court political appointees can no longer get science banned by using agencies to create regulations that act like laws.

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Nanopesticides May Be In Our Farming Future

Science 2.0 - Dec 12 2024 - 11:12
Friends of the Earth and other litigation groups opposed to science are cheering the closure of AquaBounty's AquAdvantage salmon - the poster-child (decades of regulatory roadblocks) for how the US regulatory system is manipulated by lawyers to hold back technology and medicine - but progress marches on despite the public relations campaign by Greenpeace, NRDC, and others who stand against it.

Their persistent efforts to get pesticides either banned or regulated so tightly they act as bans have been wildly successful during the Biden years, but with Chevron Deference overturned at the Supreme Court political appointees can no longer get science banned by using agencies to create regulations that act like laws.

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The End Of Alcohol Is Nigh

Science 2.0 - Dec 11 2024 - 11:12
Two Presidents ago, political appointees engaged in behavior that didn't make much sense(1) and had no benefit for public health. For example, they declared there was an epidemic of something they invented called "pre-diabetes" and insisted that smoking cessation tools that were twice as effective as gums and patches but were not controlled by Big Pharma, plus cigars and pipes that have never killed anyone, were an epidemic in kids.

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The End Of Alcohol Is Nigh

Science 2.0 - Dec 11 2024 - 11:12
Two Presidents ago, political appointees engaged in behavior that didn't make much sense(1) and had no benefit for public health. For example, they declared there was an epidemic of something they invented called "pre-diabetes" and insisted that smoking cessation tools that were twice as effective as gums and patches but were not controlled by Big Pharma, plus cigars and pipes that have never killed anyone, were an epidemic in kids.

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Nissan Leaf Is The Worst Electric Car In The Winter

Science 2.0 - Dec 10 2024 - 16:12
A few years ago, Nissan was the leader in electric cars. Now they may go bankrupt due to the electric car business. 

Some of it is that other companies are just smarter. An American company that sees Democrats are going to mandate and subsidize electric cars, dictating a percentage of cars sold, wisely fire employees and cut lines to be the most profitable in the pool of money that government mandates. And some cars are just better. 

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Nissan Leaf Is The Worst Electric Car In The Winter

Science 2.0 - Dec 10 2024 - 16:12
A few years ago, Nissan was the leader in electric cars. Now they may go bankrupt due to the electric car business. 

Some of it is that other companies are just smarter. An American company that sees Democrats are going to mandate and subsidize electric cars, dictating a percentage of cars sold, wisely fire employees and cut lines to be the most profitable in the pool of money that government mandates. And some cars are just better. 

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Alcohol Increases Your Pain Threshold - And Your Threshold For Inflicting It

Science 2.0 - Dec 06 2024 - 14:12
"I feel your pain" is a common empathy cliché but we know the opposite is true in some, and it changes how they interact with the world. 

After Dutch film director Theo van Gogh put out "Submission: Part 1" , which criticized the treatment of women in Islam, he was murdered by Mohammed Bouyeri, who ranted about a "Jewish cabal" and later directed to van Gogh's mother, "I don't feel your pain, because I believe you're an infidel."

Racism and intolerance take away empathy for others,(1) but so does alcohol.


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