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Interdisciplinary Science, Art, And A Prize Festival At The 8th USERN Congress
The 8th Congress of the USERN Organization took place during the past three days (November 8-10, 2023) at the RAU University in Yerevan, Armenia, and it was a complete success, which has left me overwhelmed by the amount of great interdisciplinary science, fantastic art in multiple forms, and the intensity and rate of positive feelings I received throughout the event. I offer below a short report of the event and my impressions, which may of course be biased by being the President of this fantastic network, but does feel a rather trustworthy report now that I read it again.
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'Organic' Naturally Means More Salmonella - So Don't Feed Organic Dog Food To Your Kids
The FDA issued a notification that Mid America Pet Food is recalling lots of its Victor dog foods due to Salmonella contamination uncovered by a third-party. Like all companies, they make lots of stuff marketed to anyone with money to spend, and that includes "organic" manufacturing processes.
But organic doesn't mean disease-free, it actually means increased risk of disease.
The odd thing about this is the the infected are primarily infants across the 7 states affected.
But organic doesn't mean disease-free, it actually means increased risk of disease.
The odd thing about this is the the infected are primarily infants across the 7 states affected.
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Enhanced Weathering And Protecting The Climate
Global warming is not new to the history of our planet, and so, by studying previous periods of global warming, scientists hope to uncover secrets that can be used to combat global warming today. The Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum, which occurred some 40 million years ago, has attracted particular scrutiny because of its unique properties.
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Move Over Ozempic. FDA Has Approved A New Weight Loss Injection Celebrities Will Exploit
There has been a shortage of Ozempic, a weight loss drug to help those with type 2 diabetes control their appetites, because rich people began to get it "prescribed" by physicians as a diet tool.
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Dr. Ergin’s SugarMD Illegally Contains Actual Medicine
FDA is warning people gullible enough to buy Dr. Ergin’s SugarMD Advanced Glucose Support, supposedly because it can 'naturally' control blood glucose, that if it did anything they only had an effect because these grifters Illegally adulterated it with glyburide and metformin, prescription medications for overweight people who've contracted type 2 diabetes.
If you own it, throw it in the garbage, and then stop buying 'miracle' potions, pills, and salves that virtue signal to anti-science beliefs about medicine. If it's a supplement, it isn't medicine. That's why it's called a supplement.
If you own it, throw it in the garbage, and then stop buying 'miracle' potions, pills, and salves that virtue signal to anti-science beliefs about medicine. If it's a supplement, it isn't medicine. That's why it's called a supplement.
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Is Your Organic Food Actually A GMO?
A few years ago, it was common for Whole Foods to blatantly lie in its marketing. Now, "organic" food is a $125 billion Big Food segment so they no longer need to lie and claim they are 'healthier' than normal food, or lie and suggest they don't use pesticides.
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Is Flossing A Waste Of Time?
Like the CDC manufacturing a prediabetes epidemic and pregnant women getting a scarlet letter if they have a glass of wine while pregnant, flossing seems to be a distinctly American phenomenon. Are we right? The British are famous for bad teeth, for example, and fiscal conservatives will say that's because dental care is not free under their socialized medicine. They must not floss, right?
Well, they don't, but it may not matter. Most people in Europe who have great teeth don't floss. They think it is humorous that we pull string through our teeth the same way European women wonder why their babies don't have more birth defects if a glass of wine causes fetal alcohol syndrome.
Well, they don't, but it may not matter. Most people in Europe who have great teeth don't floss. They think it is humorous that we pull string through our teeth the same way European women wonder why their babies don't have more birth defects if a glass of wine causes fetal alcohol syndrome.
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Vaping: The Epidemic That Never Was Is A Fad That Is Ending
In response to some young people experimenting with an effective smoking cessation tool, nicotine vaping, the Obama CDC did what more social authoritarian governments frequently do - overreact in order to convince the public they solved a problem few had.
Vaping, the stupidly named e-cigarettes, were a fad and therefore some grifters did want to sell stuff to kids, no differently than grifters at Non-GMO Project sell labels for 70,000 products, at a minimum of $3,000 each, to companies who want to bilk consumers with the intelligence level of Whole Foods shoppers. Those needed to be run out of business, no question, but having the CDC declare an "epidemic", and including any young person who had even experimented with vaping in 6 months, was silly.
Vaping, the stupidly named e-cigarettes, were a fad and therefore some grifters did want to sell stuff to kids, no differently than grifters at Non-GMO Project sell labels for 70,000 products, at a minimum of $3,000 each, to companies who want to bilk consumers with the intelligence level of Whole Foods shoppers. Those needed to be run out of business, no question, but having the CDC declare an "epidemic", and including any young person who had even experimented with vaping in 6 months, was silly.
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America Is Joining China When It Comes To Few Wanting To Get Married
The biggest shopping day of the year is not Amazon Prime Day, nor is it Black Friday, it is instead on November 11th - Singles Day.
China has so many unmarried people they turned it into a shopping celebration.
In Sweet Lemons Rationalization, if you are unable to find someone worth marrying, you can declare you don't want to get married anyway. If I say I don't want to date Heidi Klum, it is empowering and therefore not an insult that she does not date me.
That is the case with a growing number of Americans.
China has so many unmarried people they turned it into a shopping celebration.
In Sweet Lemons Rationalization, if you are unable to find someone worth marrying, you can declare you don't want to get married anyway. If I say I don't want to date Heidi Klum, it is empowering and therefore not an insult that she does not date me.
That is the case with a growing number of Americans.
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Short Corn: How Science Saved The Public From Food Shortages, Though Environmentalists Oppose It
In 2020, storms caused an estimated $12 billion in damage, including in Iowa, where a giant amount of America's corn is grown. Yet only 16 percent of the state's corn was ruined.
The reason was science; the corn had been genetically engineered to be shorter. That meant it needed less water, and resulted in less environmental strain, plus shorter stalks meant less risk from wind.
The reason was science; the corn had been genetically engineered to be shorter. That meant it needed less water, and resulted in less environmental strain, plus shorter stalks meant less risk from wind.
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Biden EPA Bans Brominated Vegetable Oil So California Won't Be Breaking The Law In An Election Year
In the early days of Christianity, after it was a tiny minority and therefore easy to blame for incompetent government choices (Nero, using a tactic politicians still use today) but before it was the dominant religion, the government did something smart; they ignored it.
They didn't have to punish Christians who refused to pay respect to the statue of the Emperor if the government had never asked them to do so in the first place.(1)
They didn't have to punish Christians who refused to pay respect to the statue of the Emperor if the government had never asked them to do so in the first place.(1)
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CRISPR Makes History With FDA Approval For Sickle Cell Disease
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a CRISPR-based treatment for sickle cell disease, an inherited disorder that distorts the shape of red blood cells and disrupts the function of hemoglobin, the protein that carries and distributes oxygen throughout the body.
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Better Beer With No Artificial Flavors Or Emissions - But There Is A Catch Activists Hate
Going into his final year in politics, California Governor Gavin Newsom is banning everything he can to create a legacy among anti-science progressives. He recently created a black market for Skittles by banning brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylparaben, and red dye 3 because, wait for it, Europeans progressives did.
Given that the coast of California hates science, they hated vaccines so much that the rest of the state forced through a law banning arbitrary exemptions by San Francisco Karens after Whooping Cough spread inland to more normal families, you'd think that a new beer which doesn't use artificial flavor but also doesn't require fruits shipped on emissions-belching ships would be welcome.
Given that the coast of California hates science, they hated vaccines so much that the rest of the state forced through a law banning arbitrary exemptions by San Francisco Karens after Whooping Cough spread inland to more normal families, you'd think that a new beer which doesn't use artificial flavor but also doesn't require fruits shipped on emissions-belching ships would be welcome.
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The Proton, A Bag Of Garbage
Since most of the building blocks of our own body are protons, the above title might disturb sensitive readers. On the other hand, describing a proton as a bag of garbage has several merits, as it is a fruitful analogy that may be carried forward when we wish to examine experiments that studied the structure of matter. I will explain what I mean in a moment below.
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Dating A Vampire Hunter? Here Is How To Get Rid Of That Garlic Breath
Halloween is the time of year when you are most likely to find out your significant other is a vampire - or vampire hunter. Sure, vampires can't be real and never have been, there can't really be hunters for those any more than there are ghost hunters, but History Channel is stuffed with people hunting ghosts, so let's light a science candle rather than curse your supernatural darkness and tell you how to get rid of your partner's garlic breath after they return from a night of slaying.
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Red Meat Isn't Linked To Heart Inflammation
Some controversial claims by epidemiologists with links to anti-meat groups (Frank Hu, Walter Willett, et al.) suggest that a normal human diet containing meat causes inflammation, which they then link to increased risk of heart disease.
A risk factor for a risk factor for a disease isn't very compelling but journalists often confuse hazard, including when epidemiologists use 10,000 doses, and risk, which is actual clinical relevance to people.
A risk factor for a risk factor for a disease isn't very compelling but journalists often confuse hazard, including when epidemiologists use 10,000 doses, and risk, which is actual clinical relevance to people.
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Another Day, Another Jury Says Plants Are Little People So Weedekillers Cause Cancer - Science Disagrees
The trial lawyers going after Monsanto are cheering that a jury 'awarded' them $175 million - but they will never see most of it.
Convincing a jury of something is easy, especially if it is an anti-science pro-corporate-conspiracy city like San Francisco, or Philadelphia. Pennsylvania is stuck with a Senator who wears hoodies to Congress, only because Democrats in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh dominate the state. That makes Philadelphia the perfect place for a jury trial about agriculture.
Convincing a jury of something is easy, especially if it is an anti-science pro-corporate-conspiracy city like San Francisco, or Philadelphia. Pennsylvania is stuck with a Senator who wears hoodies to Congress, only because Democrats in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh dominate the state. That makes Philadelphia the perfect place for a jury trial about agriculture.
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The Toxic Chemicals In Your Organic Pumpkin: Happy Halloween!
Halloween is just a few days away so prior to worrying about razor blades in candy or kids getting run down in the streets you may want to think about pumpkins.
They are full of toxic chemicals. Even organic pumpkins.
Andy Brunning, of the Compound Interest site, made this graphic for Chemical & Engineering News, but they have nothing to do with this article about the dangers of pumpkin chemicals. Theirs is informational, the snark is all mine.
They are full of toxic chemicals. Even organic pumpkins.
Andy Brunning, of the Compound Interest site, made this graphic for Chemical & Engineering News, but they have nothing to do with this article about the dangers of pumpkin chemicals. Theirs is informational, the snark is all mine.
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Hurricanes: Two Ways They Intensify
Hurricane Katrina was not dangerous until it hit land in Louisiana. But it intensified and since activists had successfully lobbied the Clinton administration to prevent the Army Corps of Engineers from making repairs, devastation occurred.
Injuries and lives lost may have been reduced if there was a better way to predict when a commonplace tropical depression or tropical storm will intensify.
A new paper says there’s more than one mechanism that causes rapid intensification.
Injuries and lives lost may have been reduced if there was a better way to predict when a commonplace tropical depression or tropical storm will intensify.
A new paper says there’s more than one mechanism that causes rapid intensification.
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Excess Fluoride In African Wells Linked To Cognitive Impairment In Kida
The benefits of fluoridated water are well-established but when nature rather than science is in charge it can be harmful. The dose makes the poison and over 200 million people worldwide are estimated to be exposed to high fluoride levels in their drinking water.
A new study finds that long-term consumption of water with fluoride levels far above, 1000 percent more, established drinking water standards may be linked to cognitive impairments in children.
A new study finds that long-term consumption of water with fluoride levels far above, 1000 percent more, established drinking water standards may be linked to cognitive impairments in children.
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