Public Health Funding Increase in New Fed Omnibus Spending Bill

The funding for public health bureaucracies always goes up because?
http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2014/01/15/public-health-funding

EPA Picks on Farmers

In a thugocracy farmers are harassed by a rogue EPA.
Are they encouraging eco-terrorism? You bet, kinda like Obama threatening bankers and bullying businesses.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/368478/epas-privacy-problem-jillian-kay-melchior

Warming Advocates Anxious

Thomas Lifson, editor of American Thinker on the latest Warmer political, public relations strategy.
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Shootings Research

A new study on mass shootings–debunks some junk science conclusions promoted in the press.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2014/01/14/crime-study-no-increase-in-mass-shootings-no-epidemic-n1778891/print

Was Ritalin that Good?

Here is a discusion of the ADHD ADD research and some walking back of claims about Ritalin type drugs.
Apparently some of the original researchers are having some regrets.
http://politichicks.tv/column/experts-question-adhd-drug-study-late-children/

Evolution, the Debate

This month in American Spectator they staged an Evolution Theory debate. That’s OK with me.
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Homeschoolers Under Fire

This is a startling tale about the anti home school attitude in Germany and a German family that was granted asylum.
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Buzzards in the West Virginny Skies

I predicted the lawsuits about a spill of non toxic 4-methylcyclohexane methanol yesterday, and
today I hear of a wave of lawsuits.
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Marijuana III

I saw this essay by Selwyn Duke, a frequent essayist for American Thinker.
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Jahi and Brain Death

This essay was thoughtful, written by a physician who provides an historical, medical, ethical, cultural and legal perspective on the brain death issue.
No one should have written up a death certificate.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/01/jahi_mcmath_is_alive.html

Atttteeennnnnhut

I run into old friends of the JunkScience.com who say–well let’s stick to science, no reason to consider the social/political/economic/pedagogical stuff. Why do you mess with the economics or social sciences?
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Howard Hayden Loves Physics

When people ask me what I am I say–a physician.
I have met so many fine minds who feel the same way about their work–they are physicists.
Howard Hayden is one example
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