Hopewell Township, New Jersey has decided to block an expansion of the PennEast Pipeline through the township. The pipeline was proposed to bring natural gas from Marcellus shale deposits in Pennsylvania to previously existing pipelines in the area. What were their reasons to object? The same tired anti-fracking rhetoric that has been spun by activists who have somehow forgotten they lobbied for more natural gas just two decades ago.

That is, the body metabolizes sugar from colas the same way it does sugar from orange juice (yes, even organic orange juice). So why add a line to the Nutrition Facts label that specifically cites the amount of added sugars?

The American Council on Science and Health has led the nation in efforts to stop people from smoking so it s no surprise we have embraced patches, gums, e-cigarettes and products like snus made in Sweden as ways to ease people off of cigarettes, because they replace nicotine. Smoking kills but it is the nicotine that makes people want to smoke.

The public has increasingly become jaded about the efforts of environmental groups and anti-science activists to raise money by promoting fear and doubt.

Conservatives want poor people to have cheap energy but no one is against cleaner energy and less pollution

When I was 17 years old I had every place kicker s nightmare: ingrown toenails. Worse was that I ignored the problem for too long and had to have them professionally removed. My pediatrician referred me to a local podiatrist and I left school early one day to get my toes clipped.

A well-controlled, head-to-head comparison of low fat and low carbohydrate diets reveals (to no one s amazement) that there isn t much difference between them when it comes to weight loss.

When Freedom of Information Act requests were being over-used by critics of climate science, the environmental community objected. What was little discussed was that they had been doing the same thing for decades.

So, here we are, between 200 and 2,000 years later, and there is still no good method (some might argue that only terrible methods is more appropriate) for controlling chronic, severe pain.

The details of science how to interpret empirical data are more of a debate than lay people may know and scientists may care to admit, and it is not as cut and dry as the media sometimes present it.