You have probably heard that we have 93% fewer food crops available today than 100 yeas ago. That a great portion of our food diversity has gone extinct and disappeared. It seems logical when you look at the infographic above based on a 1983 survey of
Antibacterial compounds have been used to help humans overcome otherwise difficult bacteria since 1928, when Alexander Fleming discovered penacillin. Penicillin then came into use in the late 1940s, where it helped my grandfather overcome an ear infection that had afflicted him for over a year.
There have been a lot of debates about vaccines in the public forum. We still see literally hundred of thousands of people completely sure that vaccines cause autism, that the ethyl mercury in thiomersal causes alzheimers, and many other spurious assumptions. Vaccines aren’t perfect
According to Dr.Richard Smith, a former editor of the British Medical Journal, pouring so many billions into cancer research is a waste of money. Smith says that cancer is, in fact, the closest one can come to surrealist Luis Buñuel wish for “a slower death.”
Since 2011 or even earlier, I have been seeing images, articles, and storytellers all recounting of a “banana experiment.” This experiment is supposedly the groundbreaking proof that our sometimes rabid defense of power structures and tradition are actually evolutionarily grounded. Before I explain what
If you look at your favorite pseudoscientific website, you will probably find a story about how taking “selfies” (or photos of yourself) is indicative of narcissism and mental illness. Certainly, most sites we name on our “list of bad sources” have posted this at
Every year, or actually multiple times every year, GALLUP asks citizens of the United States what they perceive to be the most important problem facing us. Unsurprisingly the largest single and most named category was “the economy,” which has remained the number one “what
“The war on medical marijuana is over…Now the fight moves on to legalization of all marijuana,..this is the strongest signal we have received from Congress [that] the politics have really shifted. …” said Bill Piper, a lobbyist with the Drug Policy Alliance. Within the
Mercury is an element which is naturally present in our environment. It is also known as quicksilver. It is a heavy, silvery-white metal which is liquid at room temperature and evaporates easily. Mercury is usually found in nature in the form of cinnabar, used
Poorly done acupuncture studies are published every week, so I can’t write about every one that comes out. I probably would have passed this one by, except for the New York Times article using it to tout the effectiveness of acupuncture. The headline reads:
