Which of the following is not like the others?
If you picked “gambling”, you’d be out of step with the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases which is apparently trying to medicalize politically incorrect social behavior with this new study. BTW, HIV and smallpox were the subjects of the other two stories spotlighted in the journal’s media release.
What do you think?
Ohio Republican Congressman Jean Schmidt is pressuring U.S. EPA to allow the use of the controversial pesticide propoxur for bedbugs. Continue reading Ohio Congressman presses EPA on pesticide for bedbugs
Parents across America are being terrorized today by a new study reporting to have found a variety of flame retardants in baby products. Continue reading EEEK! I tawt I taw a fwame wetardant!
A new study in Nature reports that early-1980s predictions that as many as half the species on Earth would be lost by 2000 were “overestimated.” Continue reading Past extinction rates 'overestimated', but doom 'just around corner', says new study
Expressions like “cold as hell,” “snowball’s chance in hell” and “cold day in hell” may be more/less accurate than previously believed, according to a new study in Nature. Continue reading ‘Cold as hell’ may be accurate sentiment, study says
Sen. Mitch McConnell has introduced a bill to open up offshore oil and gas drilling and to expedite the permitting and judicial review process. While this sounds great, S. 953 has serious flaws with respect to its judicial review provisions. Continue reading Republican drilling bill seriously flawed
By Steve Milloy
May 18, 2011, The Washington Times
If you’re thinking of becoming a GOP presidential candidate — and who isn’t these days? — you can plan on being pressed on the climate issue. Continue reading 2012 GOP guide to the climate debate