Here’s the problem: “This new insight appears to be particularly important in primates and likely is translatable to humans.”
IMAGE: A 2009 IMAGE OF RHESUS MONKEYS IN A LANDMARK STUDY OF THE BENEFITS OF CALORIC RESTRICTION. THE THEN 27-YEAR-OLD MONKEY ON THE LEFT WAS GIVEN A DIET WITH FEWER CALORIES.
Continue reading Food nanny nonsense: Calorie restriction lets monkeys live long and prosper
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Feeding the false dichotomy of “healthy” food versus “unhealthy” food.
Continue reading Claim: Nutritional quality of kids’ menus at chain restaurants not improving
Lousy science is epidemic and has been for a long time — so long few know what science actually looks like. That’s why I had to write this:
Climate bedwetting has gone positively Hitchcockian!
I have always found advocates of climate bedwetting to be slippery. See what you think.
Continue reading Can you trust the guy offering $25,000 for proof global warming is real?
Ridiculous for several reasons.
Continue reading Claim: Pollutants in the Arctic environment are threatening polar bear health
So become a communist while supplies last.
Continue reading Claim: Atlantic current could collapse in… 350 years
As NOAA knows, any conclusion you want is possible when you adjust the data to suit.
Continue reading Claim: ‘Global warming hiatus disproved — again’
So more ‘settled’ hurricane science — ‘Active Atlantic hurricane periods, like the one we are in now, are not necessarily a harbinger of more, rapidly intensifying hurricanes along the U.S. coast…’
That is the bottom line of a study reporting that we can have a lot of hurricanes or intense hurricanes — but not a lot of intense hurricanes. And no one knows what effect (if any) warming might have.
Continue reading NOAA admits: Can’t predict hurricane frequency or intensification in warmer climate
What is someone threw a scare but the damage didn’t really show up?
Continue reading Cost of climate change in Alaska is… negligible