Guest Post: 10 Things You Should Know about Recycling

By Jack Buffington, Ph.D

You’ve probably heard a thousand times how important it is to apply the “3 R’s” of reduce, reuse, and recycle to lighten your footprint to the environment. We should aspire to consume responsibly, but how effective are these principles in practice? Not as effective as you may believe, despite the alleged science behind recycling. In this article I will present ten things you should know about recycling and why its practices are based upon “junk science”: Continue reading Guest Post: 10 Things You Should Know about Recycling

Under Obama, American economy has dropped from 6th to 11th freest

“America’s declining score in the index is closely related to rapidly rising government spending, subsidies, and bailouts.” Continue reading Under Obama, American economy has dropped from 6th to 11th freest

In 1903, the NYTimes predicted it would be a million years before man would fly

The NYTimes editorial followed the ignominious failure of a government-sponsored flying machine. Continue reading In 1903, the NYTimes predicted it would be a million years before man would fly