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I’m Still Here
It’s been so long since I’ve written – I don’t know where to start! My lack of attention to this blog has nothing to do with my love for golf. First let me say, I won the es… Source: I’m Still Here
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In My Snarky Way I Do Try To Educate
Below is a screen grab of a thread on facebook on which I found myself tagged by my sister. I don’t know the OP or any of the commenters except the other person named Shepherd. I kind of feel bad that I invaded it and got a wee bit dogmatic but I really try to…
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Headlines Like This Make Me SO glad I Learned To Science
Five years ago, the headline below would have scared me. Today it makes me take pause and look for supportive data and additional information. What a fundamental change that is indeed. (Full article associated with this headline here) One of the first things I ran across when googling ‘splenda leukemia’ was this Op Ed…
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Observations About Obesity In America
I have been wanting to post about this topic for awhile. It’s a bit of a rant but there is also a rave or two. Read on. As I watch the perpetually ongoing merry-go-round of health activism with all its blame for obesity and disease going to culprits like GMOs, vaccines, this or that chemical,…
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Great Graphic Illustrating Myths & Facts About Vaccines
I was scrolling through facebook a few minutes ago and ran across this article from Upworthy.com posted by none other than one of my heroes, Kevin Folta. I skimmed through the article and then was blown away by the accompanying graphic (see below) that so keenly and colorfully exposes the bad science all around the…
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GMO Use Will Advance Regardless Of Folks Like Mercola
Doc Mercola is at it again – spreading fear and misinformation. Claiming a scientific position when in fact, his extremist posts about GMOs are quite the opposite. I subscribe to his emails – for entertainment mostly. Though I delete the vast majority of the emails, every now and then I open one up, as I…
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Refreshing Voice Speaks In Favor of GMOs
Though I haven’t posted in awhile, I am still passionate about spreading the real truth about GMOs and letting my story be known. My blog tells the story – post by post – about how a person can go from believing that GMOs are dangerous and should be banned to realizing that there is much…
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Sleuth4Health Goes Soylent
Ever heard of Soylent? I’m not talking about Charlton Heston’s chilling revelation that – Soylent green is people – it’s people! – at the end of the classic sci-fi flick of the same name. That movie was based on a novel called Make room! Make room! by Harry Harrison. In the novel, ‘soylent’ was a…
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There Is No ‘Why’
I am very close to the mass shooting that happened yesterday, October 1st at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. Granted I live in Portland – 180 miles north of Roseburg – but I have an aunt and cousins who live in the town made up of about 22,000 citizens. Among my Roseburg relatives is…
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Three Years Ago Today…
WordPress just informed me that today is the third anniversary of my very first post on this blog. I had totally forgotten. How apropos this news is after my last post about the transformation in perception I experienced after communicating via email with Dr. Folta and the angry mob chasing him down. I went back…