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Villainizing HFCS is an outgrowth of the more general War on Sugar. Acting under the pretense (or misunderstanding) that HFCS is “high” in fructose, a great deal of research has been carried out to study the results of...

Although the trends can be hard to perceive, we are making incredible progress on global poverty, health, longevity and climate change

"High-fructose corn syrup ‘is just a formula for making you obese and diabetic,’ RFK Jr. has said." [ source ] That’s the narrative in the Wild and Wacky World of Nutrition. It is based on the ever-present, ubiquitous,...

Does poverty cause crime? Or does crime cause poverty? Or do they feed off one other in a vicious cycle? Or does another factor or a combination of other factors cause both poverty and crime?

The path forward is clear: federal agencies must adopt rigorous, transparent and falsifiable standards to ensure that science serves truth, not power. Critics may decry the order as political overreach, but their protests...

The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has promised £14bn of investment to build the Sizewell C nuclear power plant, kicking off what the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, says will be a ‘golden age for clean energy abundance’...

“It is galling that the leadership of the institution makes that kind of money,” says one senior program officer with a decade of experience at the institution...

There is nothing out of the ordinary in the order to those immersed in the traditional scientific process and without an ideological axe to grind. But in the climate sphere it is likely to spike the guns of a number of activists...

With this action, the United States reasserts itself as a leader not just in scientific capability, but in scientific integrity. The Gold Standard is more than a label. It is now the law.

I wrote some time ago about how figures like Anthony Fauci, Michael Mann, Susan Michie, also Boris Johnson, Chris Whitty etc. etc., from 2020 onwards played cups-and-ball with science and politics. Ah, you thought it was...

But the critical questions are: “What does NIH-funded research actually accomplish?” and “Are the accomplishments worth the money?” The answers, at least according to NIH itself, seem to be shockingly little for the...

It is far easier for journalists, print or radio or television, to use a pre-determined storyline than to do real original journalism, easier when told by one’s editor to “write a story about the flooding in Arkansas...

Authorities are still trying to understand what triggered the massive power outage that left the majority of the Iberian Peninsula without electricity on Monday...

Pielke’s study meticulously documents how the ICAT dataset, initially based on his team’s carefully curated hurricane loss data (Pielke et al. 2008; Weinkle et al. 2018), was altered by International Catastrophe Insurance...

Cuts to science, environmental and safety agencies are a rejection of hard-won knowledge gained from studying the disaster that occurred 15 years ago