Advice for the Gullibull
Here’s the report that top officials of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention thought was too hot for the public to handle—and the story behind it.
For more than seven months, the nation’s top public health agency has blocked the publication of an exhaustive federal study of environmental hazards in the eight Great Lakes states, reportedly because it contains such potentially “alarming information” as evidence of elevated infant mortality and cancer rates.
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I don’t think that moral instruction adequately explains the extent to which children’s fiction promotes credulity, however. Perhaps religious and political leaders, among others, would like to see youth raised to believe without question.
Agoraphilia: “Just Believe!” Why?.
San Francisco-based Sharper Image plans to close 90 of its 184 stores as soon as possible after it sells their inventories. It plans to continue to conduct business as usual while it develops a reorganization plan.
Sharper Image files for bankruptcy - U.S. business- msnbc.com.
The study, made by a team from the Purdue University in Indiana, suggested artificial sweeteners, which have zero or very low calories, seem to have destroyed the physiological link between sweet tastes and calories, resulting to rats fed with sweeteners overeating.
Study: Artificial Sweetener Breaks Connection Between Sweet Taste, Calories | AHN
The energy of youth and the dampening effect of marriage, he adds, are also remarkably similar among geniuses in music, painting and writing, as well as in criminal activity.
Sci Tech News - from ABC News Online
Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc., one of the first companies to label its ice cream as free of a synthetic hormone, is protesting a move by some states to restrict such labeling.
The ice cream maker has joined a national campaign to block what critics say is an effort driven by Monsanto Co., which markets recombinant bovine somatotropin, or rBST, also known as recombinant bovine growth hormone, or rBGH.
Ben & Jerry’s in a fight over labeling - Food Inc.- msnbc.com.
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