Category: health
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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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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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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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Here a shill. There a shill. Everywhere a shill-shill.
Last January 20 at about nine in the evening I got a call from Dr. Kevin Folta. He would be passing through my area of Portland on his way back to the airport after completing an engagement in Salem. If I had time, could we meet for an IPA? He already knew via our email…
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No Organisms Left In The Products – Let Alone GM Ones
Today I am reviewing a brief video that packs a punch – titled GMOs and Health Safety, presented May 9 of this year at the UCLA Women’s Health Conference. The speaker is Alan McHughen. an Oxford-educated molecular geneticist with a focus on crop improvement and sustainability. There are four things I especially appreciate about this…
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Show “The Doctors” Has Hint of Rationality Regarding Glyphosate (Roundup)
Earlier this week I was putzing around my house in the afternoon with the TV blaring to keep me company and ABC’s show The Doctors came on. I’ve always put this show, perhaps mistakenly, in the same category as Dr. Oz, mainly because these types of shows come off, to me anyway, as generally somewhat…
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Another One Bites The Dust (Of Reason)
Well, well, well, Mr. Bill Nye appears to be the latest GMOs-Are-Actually-Pretty-Neat-Come-Lately. Welcome to the fold, Mr. Nye. I doubt many science types are surprised that you eventually got here, even if it took you awhile. Apparently a face-to-face encounter with Monsanto scientists was enough for the science guy to stop questioning the safety, utility…
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My review of “The Birth of the Pill” by Jonathan Eig
I haven’t posted in awhile so I thought it would be apropos to wander a bit afield of what I usually post. Today I offer a book review. The book’s full title is The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution. The author is Jonathan Eig. After reading this…
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Environmentalists Concerned About Climate Change – Please Take Note!
To anyone concerned about climate change, I am very concerned about climate change too – AND I support biotechnology – GMOs. Please look at this graphic. This is powerful. Julee K/Sleuth4Health
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Luxury GMOs! Oh boy!
Wine and Chocolate, Wikimedia Commons Wine and chocolate are to be enjoyed. Isn’t that just part of living in a privileged society? I know in my monthly book club it is. But I also know we take it completely for granted. We have never asked ourselves what a book club meeting would be like without…