These take advantage of innocent seniors who believe the government is helping them… and the Inspector General has determined that it’s all perfectly legal. Continue reading
Author Archives: sandyjfs
GMO facts typically buried and hidden
Try to search online, using popular search engines like Google and Yahoo, for the science and safety of GMO foods and you’ll be inundated by links with all sorts of anti-GMO scare stories. Continue reading
Posted in Food scares
Tax Bicyclists for Polluting
If carbon dioxide is a polluting greenhouse gas, it’s only fair that everyone pays their share of carbon taxes … Continue reading
Posted in Carbon Tax
Smokers out of job market
When a third party covers health insurance, they feel they can call the shots. They are also easily corrupted by special interests and under no obligation to base decisions on sound science. Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Skeptics should just accept that human-caused climate change is a reality
Or so says Forbes, once again demonstrating that its staff is unable to be a credible source of information on science or medicine. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Voters’ Guide
The group calling itself the Partnership for a Secure America, released a letter from 38 politicians urging action on International Climate Change Initiatives, stating climate change threatens all Americans and the country’s national security. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Continued scares about lead in children
A study of Detroit children blamed dust from the soil and carried by the wind during the summer months for higher seasonal lead levels in children. Parents do not need to worry about letting their children play outside! Continue reading
Posted in Environmentalism, Lead
Seniors more vulnerable under Obamacare
Here are two stories the mainstream media isn’t jumping all over themselves to report. Continue reading
Posted in Cancer research, Medicine
This year’s seasonal flu vaccine poorly effective among seniors
The CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report notes that the overall effectiveness of this year’s seasonal flu vaccine was 56%. But the seasonal vaccine failed to protect seniors 65 years and older. Continue reading
Posted in Influenza
Supplements exempt from Prop 65 rules in California
Companies selling dietary supplements containing lead have convinced a California Superior Court judge that chemicals occurring naturally in foods do not count as chemical exposure for consumers and are exempt from Proposition 65’s warning label requirements. Continue reading
Posted in Dietary Supplmts., Precautionary principle
Licensing Naturopaths
Evidence-based medicine is becoming “outdated” and junk science is becoming more widespread than ever in healthcare — including medical guidelines, especially preventive wellness initiatives and public health policies. With poor science behind all too much of even accepted medical practice, the most irrational pseudoscience is no longer easy low-hanging fruit to stop. Continue reading
Posted in Health, Public health miscellany
Null results in largest environmental study of its kind
The largest meta-analysis in the world of maternal exposures to air pollution and newborn birthweights, which combined effect estimates on about 3 million births from 14 international research centers, found no link. That’s not what is being reported, however. Continue reading
Posted in EPA, Risk assessment, Scientific method
Junk science has infected the heartland
Even universities in the heartland of America, which were once bastions of sound science in core sciences, including agriculture, have gone astray. To the University’s discredit, it appears “environmental studies” and climate change activism has been allowed to override science in its curriculum. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Environmentalism
Environmental activists are gearing up
Recognizing that peaceful and lawful means to achieve its objectives to fight climate change are not working, the Sierra Club has in desperation decided to escalate its activism and organize civil disobedience. It issued a press release approving civil disobedience — breaking the law — to try to stop the Keystone pipeline. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Eco-terrorism, Environmentalism, Fracking, Keystone XL, Tar sands
Pet cats are now bad for the environment
If you have a pet cat, you’re not a true environmentalist, so it seems. Continue reading
Posted in Environmentalism
More anti-people environmentalism
Humans are a plague on the Earth that need to be controlled by limiting population growth, according to Sir David Attenborough. Continue reading
Posted in Environmentalism, Population
Pink toy bubble guns an assault weapon?
A 5-year old was reportedly suspended from elementary school, grilled by school officials for half an hour (without her parents), forced to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, labeled a “terrorist threat” and threatened with jail — for a pink toy bubble gun. Continue reading
Posted in Gun control
Public health at Harvard
Harvard just announced its latest public health course, “Human Health and Global Environmental Change”: Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Health, Public health miscellany
Harvard’s at it again
And Harvard media department is at the ready with a press release to hype the results of yet another Nurses’ Health Study. Continue reading
Posted in Health, Magical food
Beware the spin in research reporting
Go to the original source and read the full study for yourself. The actual findings are often far different from what the headlines and abstract report. Continue reading
Posted in Cancer research, Scientific method
