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So many things today are more easily replaced than repaired. That seems to run against the idea that reuse is better than recycling, but replacement feeds a ravenous corporate bottom line.

A good example of Stanford's embrace of radical, anti-scientific views was the university’s invitation in 2020 to notorious charlatan Vandana Shiva to present the prestigious

Henry has served as an ACSH Science Advisor for many years and has written many articles as well. So, I’ve known Henry, but I never really knew about Henry.

As a budding “creative,” I have long been influenced by the phrase, steal like an artist – to borrow someone else’s work and make it my own in translation.

Stanford University, which consistently ranks among the top U.S. colleges and universities, is one of the great research institutions in the world.

Access to adequate water contributes in various ways to Americans’ quality of life – for bathing and drinking, of course, but also for various manufacturing processes, disposal of human waste, and irrigating much of the farmland that provides our

For those who follow my articles, you will know I am concerned about how reputations can tarnish one’s accomplishments, especially for those where the moral ground has shifted – say the Founding Fathers.

Looking back over the year, several pieces especially resonated with me.

5. Susan Goldhaber returns with an article on science in the courtroom, specifically that perennial toxic bad boy, glyphosate. There is a great deal of science, epidemiology, and statistics to understand why glyphosate is or is not a carcinogen.

If you have the opportunity to read early scientific papers, and in this case, you need only go back to the 50s, they had a more conversational tone, for the pronoun conscious, more I or we than a silent absence of any pronoun at all.