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There may be some treatments for which a true placebo is unavailable.Published: Monday, May 12th, 2008Found in: Body & Brain and Science & Society -
Home / Blogs / Science & the Public / Science & the Public : Federal R&D Budget: On Boosts and EarmarksSome people have argued that science hasn’t fared well under George W. Bush. The President’s science advisor, John H. Marburger, III, begs to differ. Federal R&D spending is up big time.Published: Thursday, May 8th, 2008Found in: Science & Society
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Home / Blogs / Science & the Public / Science & the Public : Scientific Interference: Complaints At EPAResults from a survey of more than 1,500 EPA scientists suggest a systematic attack on scientific integrity within that agency.Published: Thursday, May 8th, 2008Found in: Environment and Science & Society
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Perchlorate is not yet a household word in many parts of the country. But it may becomes one if Sen. Barbara Boxer has her way. Perchlorate – an ingredient in solid rocket fuel, fireworks, flares and explosives – taints drinking-water supplies around the nation, not to mention plenty of foods. In animal tests, the pollutant perturbs thyroid-hormone signaling. If such hormonal messages are muted or garbled in the womb or shortly after birth, an animal may suffer developmental – even cognitive – retardation. So one might think that U.S. regulatory agencies would have set maximum allowab...Published: Wednesday, May 7th, 2008Found in: Body & Brain, Ecology, Environment, Nutrition and Science & Society
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Home / Blogs / Science & the Public / Science & the Public : Ethanol Fallout: Health Risks for LivestockWith Uncle Sam pushing the production of ethanol for fuel, U.S. farmers are planting more corn than at any time since World War II, and garnering premium prices for each harvested bushel. But many livestock operations are getting hit with a double whammy: higher feeds costs and corn-derived feed that’s carrying triple the normal load of fungal poisons.Published: Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Found in: Agriculture, Environment, Food Science, Molecules, Nutrition and Science & Society -
Home / Blogs / Science & the Public / Science & the Public : Babbitt to Southern Louisiana: Look into Gondolas“New Orleans, at the end of the century, will be an island” — literally, predicts Bruce Babbitt. Whether or not you believe his assessment, he makes a good case for considering the implications of climate change when planning federal projects.Published: Monday, May 5th, 2008Found in: Climate Change, Earth Science, Environment and Science & Society
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Fossil-fuel pollution has been offsetting global warming to the tune of about 30 percent per year. Cleaning up that pollution, a must, threatens to accelerate warming unless humanity changes its fuel-use strategy.Published: Monday, May 5th, 2008Found in: Climate Change, Earth Science, Environment, Matter & Energy and Science & Society
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A shortfall in rice production has been developing well under the radar screen of agricultural economists and growers. The bad news: It promises to get much worse, and fairly soon.Published: Friday, May 2nd, 2008Found in: Agriculture, Environment, Nutrition and Science & Society -
Rather than wowing its visitors this summer with world-class air pollution, China wants to impress them with its clean, green Olympics.Published: Thursday, May 1st, 2008Found in: Climate Change, Environment and Science & Society
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Researchers with the Brookings Institution have just published a blueprint for tackling what they perceive as a brewing innovation crisis. They propose that Uncle Sam create a federal agency to focus squarely on helping home-grown companies increase their innovation, productivity and profitability.Published: Tuesday, April 29th, 2008Found in: Science & Society and Technology
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Home / Blogs / Science & the Public / Science & the Public : Building Homes Where the Buffalo RoamedA new study finds that being environmentally conscious is no guarantee you’ll put your home where you mouth is.Published: Monday, April 28th, 2008Found in: Ecology, Environment and Science & Society
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After mothballing five libraries as a purported cost-cutting gesture, the agency is now responding to congressional prodding and unboxing its books.Published: Friday, April 25th, 2008Found in: Environment and Science & Society
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Here's a novel health food I learned about this morning--one that could be free for the gleaning right outside your front door (especially if you live in China). Warning: You have to be quick or it will get away.Published: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008Found in: Body & Brain, Chemistry, Environment and Science & Society -
China appears to be the world leader in carbon-dioxide emissions, but we may be partly to blame.Published: Tuesday, April 15th, 2008Found in: Environment
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Climate-news watchers may have done a double-take if they caught a look at a story in today’s Washington Times. It reported that: “President Bush is poised to change course and announce as early as this week that he wants Congress to pass a bill to combat global warming.” If the account proves true, it will signal a Georgie-come-lately understanding by our President of the need to act on the disturbing revelations that climate scientists have been sounding about a warming of our planet. In contrast, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Barack Obama have all been stumping that climate war...Published: Monday, April 14th, 2008Found in: Science & Society

