Category: Miscellaneous

While the result may appeal to subscribers of the so-called “hygiene hypothesis,” this study is junk. Continue reading NO… study does not link exposure to animals with lower risk of childhood asthma

Supposedly this will save money and improve road longevity. Continue reading Bhutan to pave roads with recycled plastic

Let the Supreme Court rule on mandatory labeling. Continue reading Why Congress Shouldn’t Act on GMOs

The product of totalitarians watching too much PBS children’s programming. Continue reading Wow… Chinese government made an English music video about its latest 5-year plan

More “settled science.” Continue reading Evolution can happen much faster than thought, reveals chicken study

Another one for the unfalsifiable hypothesis file. This is not science. Continue reading Humans caused the extinction of mammoths and mastodons?

This is really embarrassing stuff… but if the target is sufficiently demonized, junk scientists can get away with it. Continue reading Study: Secondhand smoke causes cavities in children

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A new study from Brown University social “scientists” claims that 18.6 percent of freshmen women surveyed at a university in upstate New York in 2010 endured at least one completed or attempted rape. Continue reading No… study does not show that 20% of college freshman have been raped

Because only left-wing radicals should be allowed to speak. Continue reading Nice guy: Skeptics should be barred from media, says ‘Merchants of Doubt’ producer

In a shocking editorial slamming the Israeli PM’s “unconvincing” speech: Continue reading NYTimes objects to Netanyahu’s insistence that Iran give up its terrorist ways

Really unbelievable… Continue reading Terrorist Iran defends itself in NYTimes with Clintonian excuse