Amory Lovins has a very intriguing proposal… Increase of Nuclear Power use would cause an increase in Global Warming. That’s kind of a puzzler but it turns out he has an interesting analysis. And, to be real, Officialdom is presenting increased nuclear power as a method to solve some of the ‘energy’ […]

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The US FDA is lifting the warning on eating tomatoes it issued on June 7 because of the country’s largest produce-associated foodborne Salmonella outbreak. The source of the Salmonella infections, all said to be “genetically identical” isolates of an uncommon serovar is still to be discovered, although epidemiological evidence associated it with salsa containing fresh […]

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If you’re at all familiar with Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science blog and Guardian column, you’ll have some idea of what his talk was about - debunking nutritionists, the multi-billion dollar industry nutritional supplement industry they have built, and the overblown claims about the benefits of various food products.
Title: Food, Fads & Fantasies
Abstract: We are frequently […]

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