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The Link Between Stomach Woes And Bad Breath
If you have bad breath and it hasn't been an issue your entire life, the most common cause may be that garlic and Limburger cheese sandwich you ate at lunch, but sometimes it's not a lifestyle issue. It could be an oral issue but it could also be a stomach one.
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China Lied About When It First Had The SARS-CoV-2 Virus Sequence
In 2020, nearly 20,000 coronavirus samples in a database were removed by the Chinese government. Prior to that, I had noted a suspicious passing of a Chinese whistleblower, Li Wenliang, who had been arrested by the government and suddenly died.
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Republicans Are Still Too New to the Anti-Vax Ecosystem To Have A Hugh Fudenberg
Republicans are still pretty new to the anti-vax ecosystem. Sure, decades ago there were some religious fundamentalists who denied vaccines, but when progressive states like California, Washington, and Oregon led the nation by far - the California coast actually had more arbitrary school kid exemptions than the entire US combined - more conservative states like Mississippi and Alabama had vaccines for kids at nearly 100 percent.
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The Biden Administration Needs To Fund The Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978
The US Department of Agriculture believes that foreign countries may own up to 40,000,000 acres of farm land.
No one really knows despite the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978 requiring it.
No one really knows despite the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978 requiring it.
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Electric Car Sales Are Plummeting Due To Reduced Subsidies - Cold Weather Will Make Sales Worse
Like most of the Biden economic initiatives during his first term, the Inflation Reduction Act, along with trillions of dollars of other subsidies, were primarily geared toward wealthy elites.
If you want to buy a fancy electric car, government, using taxes and fees on poor people, will pay you to do so. They pay car companies to make them and mandate car companies had to make them.
If you want to buy a fancy electric car, government, using taxes and fees on poor people, will pay you to do so. They pay car companies to make them and mandate car companies had to make them.
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California Democrats Vow To Help Prevent Childhood Obesity With More Government - By Banning Sports
California Democrats: Childhood obesity is up, we need more government regulations to protect people from themselves.
Also California Democrats: Let's start by banning sports for kids.
By the end of this month, California Democrats will decide if they should ban youth football. Sports are dangerous. It's for the children.
Also California Democrats: Let's start by banning sports for kids.
By the end of this month, California Democrats will decide if they should ban youth football. Sports are dangerous. It's for the children.
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Suspect Correlation: Epidemiologists Link IVF To BMI Of Kids
A population-based cohort study sought to examine a controversial epidemiological claim about assisted reproductive technologies like in vitro fertilization and the body mass index (BMI) of children.
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Federal Scientists Did Not Say Marijuana Is Medicine, Epidemiologists Did
Marijuana industry trade groups are ecstatic that a Department of Health and Human Services
report
stated there is one indication that medical marijuana is legitimate.
But news outlets reporting that federal scientists are saying medical marijuana is legitimate are doing the public a disservice; it was not scientists, it was epidemiologists, and the review was of papers where people anecdotally said it helped them feel less pain.
But news outlets reporting that federal scientists are saying medical marijuana is legitimate are doing the public a disservice; it was not scientists, it was epidemiologists, and the review was of papers where people anecdotally said it helped them feel less pain.
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American Academy Of Pediatrics: Lied About Vaccines And Autism, Kids Walking To School, And Now GMOs
It is an unfortunate reality in America that medical societies have an outsized influence on government policy.
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Thermodynamic Parameters Can Influence The Outcome Of An Experiment
When you are making a model it is common to make assumptions about the physical systems often assume that measurable features of the system. Temperature or chemical potential can be specified. The real world is messier than that, and uncertainty is unavoidable. Temperatures fluctuate, instruments malfunction, the environment interferes, and systems evolve over time.
Statistical physics address the uncertainty about the state of a system that arises when that system interacts with its environment but a new paper says that uncertainty in the thermodynamic parameters themselves — built into equations that govern the energetic behavior of the system — may also influence the outcome of an experiment.
Statistical physics address the uncertainty about the state of a system that arises when that system interacts with its environment but a new paper says that uncertainty in the thermodynamic parameters themselves — built into equations that govern the energetic behavior of the system — may also influence the outcome of an experiment.
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The Harvard Anti-Semitism Controversy Also Revealed The Scholarship Cancer Inside Academia
University of Kentucky political science Professor Stephen Voss, who was plagiarized by Harvard President Claudine Gay, said it was no big deal. It was even expected she would use his work without attribution? He seems to think so. “It would have been quite natural for her to borrow ideas from me."
He didn't tell me that personally. I instead cited the source. Like you are supposed to do. It ain't that hard. She could have done it but did not, and yet he has no issue with that. He seems to be more upset that her plagiarism is going to lead to more investigations of humanities scholars' academic work, including by people 'not qualified' to do so.
He didn't tell me that personally. I instead cited the source. Like you are supposed to do. It ain't that hard. She could have done it but did not, and yet he has no issue with that. He seems to be more upset that her plagiarism is going to lead to more investigations of humanities scholars' academic work, including by people 'not qualified' to do so.
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Resilience: Debunking The Debunker
Sarah Green Carmichael, in a Bloomberg News item titled “You don’t need more resilience, you need friends, and money” debunks the business gurus who tell us all resilience comes from inside us. Sarah’s thesis is that our environments determine our resilience, or at least can shield us from the traumas that necessitate resilience.
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Statistical Methods For Fundamental Science Course Starts Tomorrow
From tomorrow onwards (once or twice a week until February 5), I will be giving an online course on the topic of "Statistical Methods for Fundamental Science" for the INSTATS organization. This is a 5-day, 15-hour set of lectures that I put together to suit the needs of students and researchers who work in any scientific discipline, who wish to improve their understanding and practice of statistical methods for data analysis.
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