China has quietly overtaken France to become the world's second-largest producer of nuclear energy. read more
If you live in a state like California, which can't balance its checkbook but thinks it knows everything about science and health, you are besieged with cancer warning labels, prediabetes awarene...
In a world where we live hostages of advertisement, where our email addresses and phone numbers are sold and bought by companies eager to intrude in our lives and command our actions, preferences...
https://www.science20.com/tommaso_dorigo/on_rating_universities-257040
As Lenin's Birthday Earth Day approaches, all of media are pillaged by public relations flaks being paid by 'green' companies who are using capitalism to promote their financial form of environme...
In mice, caloric restriction has been found to increase aging but obviously mice are not little people, and mice are weaned on a starvation diet. That cannot and will never happen in humans. Yet�...
https://www.science20.com/news_staff/study_caloric_restriction_in_humans_and_aging-257038
It is impossible to not know about 'miracle' weight loss drugs when progressive science magazines like Science called them the "2023 Breakthrough of the Year", something they never said about GM...
A tsunami and an earthquake led to the 2011 Fukushima nuclear incident in which three of its reactors had meltdowns. Though it needed a perfect storm of events for that to happen, the science co...
The death of a California woman has been attributed to an Asian supplement, Cao Bôi Trĩ Cây Thầu Dầu, a 'castor oil hemorrhoid extract' that is actually about 4% lead, a “highly dangero...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a lawyer who leveraged a name that was essentially beatified by Democrats into a lucrative career trying to promote corporate conspiracies about cell phones (cancer!), GM...
We occasionally publish content from The Conversation though it is no surprise that the company goes hard to the left. A friend received a job offer and then had it pulled because staffers were c...
There was a time when Consumers Union, the company behind Consumer Reports, which claims to impartially test products, was a trusted brand.(1) That was before key employees were caught colluding ...
It has become commonplace for government officials to bypass record-keeping laws by using personal email accounts, even if they are discussing official business. Illegal, but commonplace. read m...
https://www.science20.com/content/niaid_violated_federal_recordkeeping_laws_on_covid19_origins
After a combination of natural disasters forced the shutdown of a nuclear reactor in Japan, taxpayer-funded activists in Germany seized on the hysteria to demand that their country switch to sola...
https://www.science20.com/content/germanys_big_lie_about_alternative_energy_cant_be_denied_any_more
Thanks to mandates by government forcing automobile manufacturers to make them, and subsidies for the wealthy to buy them, electric cars were 8% of purchases last year. They would not be anywher...
The Biden EPA has been no friend to science. Like with his other agencies, if the president can't have science or Congress on his side, he will change the mandate of EPA and then direct them to d...
Peter Higgs passed away yesterday, at the age of 94. The scottish physicist, a winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Francois Englert, hypothesized in 1964 the existence of the ...
https://www.science20.com/tommaso_dorigo/goodbye_peter_higgs_and_thanks_for_the_boson-257024
When you read that NPR has 87 Democrats in editorial positions and 0 Republicans, are you really surprised? No, but when much of corporate media, and nearly as much of academia as NPR, is simila...
California is under fire for claiming to care about emissions while being responsible for the overwhelming majority of a chemical that activists link to climate change. The state at least feign...
https://www.science20.com/content/california_is_home_to_85_of_this_climate_change_linked_chemical
There was a time when Paul Thacker was part of a progressive commune that all endorsed and supported each other in their 'science is a corporate conspiracy' bubble. They had infested what passed ...
People are living better lives for longer than ever but an EXPLORATORY study using a computer simulation says there is reason for concern; people are getting cancer younger than ever. The author...
Environmental lawyers are teeing up to sue decaffeinated coffee companies. They just need the Biden administration to ban it, but they can't using science. They want him to use OSHA. Again. ...
https://www.science20.com/content/environmental_lawyers_want_biden_to_help_them_sue_coffee_companies
Urban/local/small ag is a feel-good fallacy. There is nothing wrong with wishful thinking and aspirations, we all have harmless beliefs that get into our brains. Some home ag is clearly ridicul...
https://www.science20.com/hank_campbell/if_you_care_about_emissions_rethink_urban_agriculture-256961
In the course of Statistics for Data Analysis I give every spring to PhD students in Physics I spend some time discussing the apparently trivial problem of evaluating the significance of an exces...
Wealthy countries with natural 'breadbaskets' - places where it is easy to grow food - have so much abundance they can put special labels like 'organic' on tens of thousands of products and charg...
After seeing the results of a randomized, controlled, double-blind, multinational, multi-center trial where 390 subjects got either Zevtera (192) or daptomycin plus optional aztreonam (198), the...
The science community is cheering while European politicians are seething, because Ghana’s National Biosafety Authority has approved 14 new genetic engineering products; eight corn and six soy...
https://www.science20.com/content/slap_to_colonialism_ghana_defies_europe_and_approves_gmos
Misinformation scholarship is not new, it just got more attention due to Brexit and Trump - and that's due to the left finally focusing on an issue when it's happening on the other side. Prior t...
Anti-science activists and the environmental lawyers who fund them were giddy that a paper found Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in 45 percent of water they tested. Oh no, let's run ...
College students who took out $200,000 in loans to get degrees in 18th century French poetry are hoping to get their stupidity waived before the 2024 election, but until then it's smart to look a...
https://www.science20.com/content/rat_whisperer_among_top_6_growing_jobs_for_2024
Large Language Models, colloquially called Artificial Intelligence by companies selling rebranded autocomplete tools to other companies and the public, can automate a lot of entry-level projects ...
https://www.science20.com/hank_campbell/black_mental_health_is_basically_ignored_by_ai_models-257012