Greenland has been Mighty Stable

OOOOOOH so scary, say the professional Chicken Littles.
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Cribs are toxic–What to do?

This silly little research announcement about ‘potential’ toxicity from crib mattresses is an annuity for the authors.
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Doc, splain One Hit

Easy.
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Revisiting the Cowardice and Fear that Spawns the Precautionary Principle

Frank Furedi writes and speaks on the vicious problem of the precautionary principle.
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Secret Science targeted by the House

Steve Milloy, Stan Young and many others have argued that EPA researchers should show their data and methods.
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More from Thomas Sowell on Facts and Fantasy

Thomas Sowell continues his series of essays on fact free liberal thinking.
We already put up the first and II.
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Newsman Suffers Anxiety Attack

Gee, there just isn’t enough information on the health risks of fracking for this Penn journalist.
http://www.pennlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/01/when_it_comes_to_the_public_health_implications_of_gas_drilling_pa_has_its_head_in_the_shale.html

Butterworth Talks Chemoriskophobia

This essay is about surveys of professionals involved in assessing chemical/toxicological risks.
Very enlightening and more sensible than what we see in the political forums and the media. These professionals are properly concerned about the political “consensus” and the fanatic influence, and would prefer more science, less hysteria.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/trevorbutterworth/2013/12/19/politics-environmentalism-beating-out-science-in-regulating-risk-say-experts/print/

Let's Talk Precautionary Principle

I know, maybe you want to see the latest–later.
Now we talk PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE, since it drives much of what we criticize here at JunkScience.com.
The idea that one bad event is too intolerable and you can’t be too risk averse.
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