Category: Miscellaneous

Rick Perry has performed terribly in the presidential debates… no argument… but unlike, say Mitt Romney, the energy plan he released today aims directly at the runaway Obama EPA. Continue reading Perry's Energy Plan

Why is it that Republicans can’t seem to wrap their brains around their tongues when it comes to the environment? Continue reading Romney vague, confused on environment, EPA

Note to readers: JunkScience Sidebar has moved to a daily News & Views page available here. Continue reading News & Views – October 12, 2011

Who knew that children should be playing in the street? Continue reading New public health recommendation: Children should play in the street

Check out the new Rick Perry ad which includes an audio clip and photo of Mitt Romney saying about a Massachusetts coal plant, “I will not create jobs or hold jobs that kill people, and that plant, that plant kills people.” Continue reading Romney & Obama: Carbon Copies

So have scientists generated “genetically tailored stem cells” Or is this just more embryonic stem cell hype? Continue reading More embryonic stem cell junk

A New York Times op-ed today offers the chance to explore the liberal fallacy of “abortion is good, pollution is bad”. Continue reading Abortion and breast cancer: Scientific and moral double standards

Johns Hopkins infectious disease experts say the medical benefits for male circumcision are clear and that efforts in an increasing number of states (currently 18) to not provide Medicaid insurance coverage for male circumcision, as well as an attempted ballot initiative in San Francisco earlier this year to ban male circumcision in newborns and young boys, are unwarranted. Continue reading Circumcision bans: Unwarranted and harmful?

A new study in The Lancet Infectious Diseases reports that the use of hormonal contraception may double the risk of HIV transmission. But, at best, what this study shows is that transmission of HIV through conventional heterosexual contact occurs rarely, if ever. Continue reading Contraception doubles risk of HIV?

It’s October, so it must be breast cancer industry month. Continue reading Thinking — not just pink-ing — on breast cancer

The guy likes to eat. So what? Continue reading Is Christie too fat to be president?

“Jim Al-Khalili, Professor of Physics at the University of Surrey, said: ‘Let me put my money where my mouth is: if the CERN experiment proves to be correct and neutrinos have broken the speed of light, I will eat my boxer shorts on live TV.’ reports The Daily Mail.