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EPA Rolls Back TSCA Encroachment By The Biden Administration

Science 2.0 - Nov 07 2025 - 13:11
In 2016, President Obama listened to reason and signed the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, which amended the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and created a mandatory requirement for EPA to evaluate existing chemicals using transparent methodology and risk-based assessment.

No more simplistic epidemiology. Which meant no more junk that had anti-science activists declaring that a weedkiller turned frogs gay or PFAS in pizza boxes created greater risk for obesity than pizza.

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The Cranberry Scare Of 2025 Is Not New, It's Been A Thanksgiving Tradition Since 1959

Science 2.0 - Nov 07 2025 - 11:11
People are concerned about cranberries again this November, but it isn't a new phenomenon.

Cranberries were actually the first modern chemophobia scare, when anti-science activists got government to first do what they have since done to weedkillers, trans fats, ultraprocessed foods, BPA, you name it - terrify the public about a product using bad epidemiology despite there being no science basis for it.(1)

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PAST AS PROLOGUE: An Engineering Legacy

Science 2.0 - Nov 06 2025 - 19:11

1980s photo of the author, right; his father, center; and his sister, left.


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