Revolutionaries


Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561 – 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, and essayist. He is also known as a catalyst of the scientific revolution.

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Link Between Tanning Beds, Melanoma Grows Stronger (USA Today)
MMR Doctor Struck From Register (BBC)
A Link Between Pesticides and ADHD (Time)
Another Plastics Ingredient Raises Safety Concerns (Science News)
The Big Test for Bisphenol A (Nature)
The 'Killer Fungus': Should We Be Scared? (Time)

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Cellphone Update

[-18 | 960 | 0 | 0]   2008-07-23

Cellphones are causing more and more cancer!


Cell Phone Paranoia Exposed

[22 | 863 | 0 | 0]   2008-08-07

The physics behind the interaction of radiation and matter tells us that cell phones cannot cause cancer. So why does the idea persist? We dig into the history of radiation and cancer to find out why.


Cell Phone Fraud Exposed

[18 | 950 | 0 | 1]   2008-09-01

The journal Science is reporting that two studies claiming that radiation from cell phones can cause DNA damage are fraudulent.


The Science Diet

[-20 | 1159 | 0 | 0]   2009-02-28

Forests have been felled and fortunes spent on diets and dieting. The money has been wasted and almost all the words are worthless drivel. Find the secrets to the only diet that really works. And its free!


Getting Serious About Climate Change

[4 | 422 | 0 | 0]   2009-09-27

Its time we grew up and faced the facts: climate change is real and its man made. By measuring the amount of CO2 we have put in the air and the rise in global temperature, we can estimate future climate changes. The results are not pretty.


Metastudies find Metacellphones cause Metacancer.

[-9 | 460 | 0 | 4]   2009-11-01

The LA Times has recently reported on a metastudy that finds cell phone users suffer 10 to 30% more cancer than nonusers. How well does the claim stand up to scrutiny?

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