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Korean Convenience Store Buffet ACHTUNG!!! -US Food-borne Illnesses Cost $152B!

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So; hrm, next time you're deciding whether or not to microwave that affordable steam-tray roadkill
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Posted by Will on 03/ 7/10 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

How Science Reporting Works

how science reporting works by SMBC-comics.com and Zach Weiner
Funny, but

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Posted by Will on 01/13/10 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button




And Now For Something Completely Different: Health Promotion Fail

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Free Gas or Free Meth is a tough choice.
Most kids are energetic enough as it is, though.
But hey,

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Posted by Will on 09/30/09 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Two Inhalation-Based Nanoparticle Deaths In China

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Two women are dead in China as a result of nanoparticle inhalation exposure of almost a year.

Without increased precautions, these are probably the first of many confirmed cases in the future of death due to nanoparticle exposure.

It's a terrible thing to have been right about, but here's the original article where we called exactly this type of health risk about ~2 years ago: Nanotech Ultra...

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Posted by Will on 09/ 6/09 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Hey, Let's All Play Along! -It's Cellphone Football!!!

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Hey look Junior, it's the ocean! -Go Swim!

Insomnia! Confusion? Headaches! -Oh My!

2008-India To Join CP Study Mosh Pit; -you know, 'cause all the cool kids are doing it, Mom!

2008-STUK,Finland: May Alter Proteins in Skin

2007-Cleveland: Damaged Sperm

2007-MTHR,UK: Could Be As Dangerous As Cigarettes

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Posted by Will on 08/ 6/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

The G-Shot. Not Gardasil, But Definitely A Shpot Heard 'Round The World

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Once Upon A Time, sweet kind ladies like my adopted Aunt, who was recently made an official Saint by The Vatican, would get together and have quaint little sales parties discussing things like makeup and reusable plastic storage containers.

In another notch down the ratchet of our increasingly Britney-fied culture, Ladies who had long-ago abandoned their prim but sassy Doris Day dresses for -well maybe not Christina Aguilera Underpants

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Posted by Will on 06/21/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Stephen Colbert Makes Dean Kamen Remove Doritos From Water

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I could go on about how Perpetual Hairstyle Makeover Candidate Dean Kamen saves the third world with a machine they can't afford, that will be taken right off the UNICEF trucks by warlords and sold to Idi Amin's grandchildren so they can run hexavalent chromium-removal experiments in Ye Olde Backyard Minefield, and how anything that evaporates at or near water's evap point may collect also (like hydrocarbons), if not allowed to escape in a very sneaky way. -AND how distilled water will literally pull the minerals right out of your bones and teeth if you don't add it back into the water for the lucky 3rd-worlders who Do see one of Dean's boxes, but Screwit! -Here's a funny vid after teh jump!:...[read more >>]

Posted by Will on 05/15/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

TRIPLE FRAK!!! =>Rocket Fuel In Water. EPA Sez, "What, me worry?"

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-Probably won't do anything to get it out of the water or pass any laws that "represent a meaningful opportunity for reducing risks to human health" -yay.

Wait, what was that about buying a really good home water filter?

I could fantasize about the Rocket Fuel functioning like

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Posted by Will on 05/ 8/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Aw, >>FRAK<< ! -Canucks Bork Nalgene. Thanks, Bisphenol A!!!

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BLAME CANADA!!

Our neighbors to the north in their perpetual re-bid to be a haven for pot smokers, asian prostitutes, odd guys named Doug, expatriated French-holes and to remain the red-headed stepchild of socialst Sweden have struck YET AGAIN!!!!

Damn you, Canada! -Singlehandedly pounding the Nalgene Nunc company by outlawing polycarbonate drinking vessels made using Bisphenol A.

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Posted by Will on 05/ 7/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Residual Antibiotics, Hormones found in Public Water

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Apparently, fish getting their freak on for Jesus in it is becoming the least of our problems.

And though CityNews has clarified for us some of the snow types not to eat (yellow is still bad, btw), AP’s national investigation team has discovered some stuff may be making its way into the water, -particularly unmetabolized birth control hormones and other

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Posted by Will on 04/21/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

ACHTUNGUNTZEE! -Crest Pro-Health Mouthwash and Brown Spots

horse smile Stacy Braswell
No longer afraid of being a lifelong alcoholic, perpetually falling off the wagon, I've written the current Crest ProHealth Mouthwash off my dental hygeine list after this comment from Consumerist's reader "Monique".

"Crest Pro-Health Mouthwash turned my teeth brown! And on top of that, I can't taste anything! I can't believe this stuff is even

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Posted by Will on 03/18/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

The "Clean Plate Club" Can Actually Be A Bad Thing

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SOLUTION???
-smaller plates...

++ Less French People.

-Many Americans have been schooled by their parents, in the spirit of puritanism in part, that Waste is Sinful.
While the Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism has its place, certain consequences of it can mean Big Fat Americans.

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Posted by Will on 02/23/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Fat Is Contagious

fat is contagious
I KNEW IT!!!!!

-How sitting next to a Fat Person can make you fat.
by Kimberly Brittingham
Link

Actually,

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Posted by Will on 02/21/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Unusually High Mercury in Tuna Sushi

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VIVA LA REVOLUCIÓN!
Workers of the World Unite!!
At last our pinko commie revenge upon the shoulder-surfing Rich Bastards is at hand!!!!
In the form, of ...
... ...
-tuna.

The NYT reports on a study they had started last year with scientists from Robert Wood Johnson

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Posted by Will on 02/15/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Soda With High Fructose Corn Syrup Further Linked to Health Problems

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EN GARDE, Soda Drinkers!!! :( No, this is not an entry on how to make a sub-nuclear pipe bomb out of a 2-Liter Splenda-fied bottle of Diet Coke, 2oz. Ammonia, #0000 Steel Wool, and a pack of Mentos. (try BoingBoing for that)

Researcher Extraordinarie, Dr. Chi Tang Ho and his associates at Rutgers Food Science Department have tested several carbonated sodas containing that longtime mV "Agent Smith"

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Posted by Will on 08/31/07 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Tainted Love 2, Fouling Nemo

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6/29 [fishy, eh ;)]UPDATE to: The China Syndrome: Bargain Basement Price = Tainted Love Now it's sewage & environmental pollution-fighting but carcinogenic antifungals in the Catfish, Eel, Tilapia, Shrimp, Basa, Dace Carp & Clams in the 18% of our total Fish imports ...[read more >>]

Posted by Will on 06/29/07 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Spock Found! -Patient Bleeds Green Blood

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If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you cut us, do we not bleed ...-green?

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Posted by Will on 06/12/07 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

The China Syndrome: Bargain Basement Price = Tainted Love

china money coin
Ah yes; first it was: "Dat ain't chicken u just ate."
Now it's "Soylent Green iz Melamine!"
Have a little Ersatz Protein & Antifreeze with that Toothpaste, Chicken, Pork, Domestic Pet, "Wild" Salmon,etc.
Race Ya To The Bottom! -bets on...[read more >>]

Posted by Will on 06/12/07 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Weekly News Roundup

Tylenol / Acetaminophen OD-ing Causes Liver Damage   Study Abstract
Human Variant Mad Cow Blood Test Nears Readiness
-The test results you never want to get.
Acetaminophen May Reduce Incidence of Ovarian Cancer
- What's a Girl To Do?
CR Study Raises New Concerns About Mercury Exposure Through Tuna
Researchers Reverse Parkinson's Pathway in Simple Models
-Susan Lindquist's Disease Research Lab Page

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Posted by Will on 07/ 9/06 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Weekly News Roundup

Some Blood Pressure Meds May Raise Incidence of Birth Defects
Harvard to Start Cloning Embryos
Gardasil FDA Approved and Available For Order
Biological Clock Exists for Men
-except Larry King
Drug for Diabetes

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Posted by Will on 06/ 9/06 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Weekly News Roundup

The FDA Says Gardasil is Safe
--With a few conditions, as it may increase disease factors and doesn't protect against every type of cervical cancer.
Origin of HIV Found
New Fad: Botox Your Prostate
Now, if my wife and I go at the same time, can we get a 2 for 1 special?
No Link Found Between Marijuana and Lung Cancer
... ... ...         - what ...? mmm-brownies...
Increased Mortality Risk From Advair and Seravent
Prozac Mechanism Discovered in Detail
Team hopes new & better antidepressants may be created ++=>.
Merck Shingles Vaccine Gets Approved
Backwards Running. --Sure. ...?neck your in crick the about what But
Who knew it had any application outside of Fraternity Initiation Week? --Backwards clothing optional.

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Posted by Will on 05/27/06 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button






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