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Thankfully, We Don't Have To Spend As Much of Our Incomes on Food As Our Ancestors Did

Thankfully, We Don't Have To Spend As Much of Our Incomes on Food As Our Ancestors Did
27.11.2025 10

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The U.N. Has Now Held 30 Climate Change Conferences That Have Accomplished Almost Nothing

The U.N. Has Now Held 30 Climate Change Conferences That Have Accomplished Almost Nothing
25.11.2025 4

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RFK Jr. Breaks His Promises About the CDC on Vaccines and Autism

RFK Jr. Breaks His Promises About the CDC on Vaccines and Autism
22.11.2025 30

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COVID Shots Are Not Causing a 'Turbo Cancer' Epidemic

COVID Shots Are Not Causing a 'Turbo Cancer' Epidemic
14.11.2025 10

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The U.N. Has Been Holding Climate Conferences for 30 Years. Carbon Emissions Continue To Climb.

The U.N. Has Been Holding Climate Conferences for 30 Years. Carbon Emissions Continue To Climb.
10.11.2025 2

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Vaccine Skeptics Said That COVID Shots Would Cause Mass Death. We're Still Here.

25.10.2025 4

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Needlessly Strict Federal Rules on Radiation Exposure Are Stalling Nuclear Power Development

18.10.2025 10

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Review: This Cat Gamed the Academic Publishing System and Earned High Marks on Google Scholar

17.10.2025 10

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Can Americans Trust RFK Jr.'s Health Advice? A Breakdown on Vaccines, Autism, Food Dyes, and More

30.09.2025 2

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AI Chatbots Might Already Be Better Than Humans at Debating

15.09.2025 3

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Is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. 'Weaponizing Public Health' by Removing the CDC Director?

29.08.2025 30

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RFK Jr. Shifts $500 Million From mRNA Research to 'Safer' Vaccines. Does the Data Back That Up?

08.08.2025 20

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Wild Animals Are Thriving on South Africa's Private Reserves and Game Farms

03.08.2025 10

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Notre-Dame Was Built—and Rebuilt—Through Private Donations

27.07.2025 100

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Dead Wrong About Outlawing Climate Geoengineering

24.07.2025 30

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3-Parent Babies Born Healthy in the U.K.

18.07.2025 20

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The Depopulation Bomb

08.07.2025 50

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New Orleans City Council Considers Ordinance To Adopt Real-Time Facial Recognition Technology

28.06.2025 8

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RFK Jr.'s Handpicked Vaccine Panel Unsurprisingly Delivers Antivaccine Conclusions

27.06.2025 10

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Does Drug Use Lead to Addiction, or Are Some Brains More Prone To Use Drugs?

22.06.2025 10

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Under RFK Jr., Vaccine Approval Is Getting More Politicized, Not Less

13.06.2025 3

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Photo: Dire Wolf De-extinction

01.06.2025 6

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Can America Get Out of the Gerontocracy Trap?

26.04.2025 9

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Virtual Fencing Can Help Buffalo Roam and Antelope Play

24.04.2025 3

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Celebrate Earth Day by Going Nuclear

23.04.2025 10

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The First Colored Eggs Appeared Long Before Easter

20.04.2025 6

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Don't Fear the Bird Flu When Dyeing Easter Eggs

19.04.2025 10

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Colossal Biosciences Resurrects Long-Extinct Dire Wolf

08.04.2025 30

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RFK Jr. Hires a Vaccine 'Skeptic' To Find the Cause of Autism

03.04.2025 10

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Federal Court 'Vacates in Its Entirety' the FDA's Costly and Onerous Lab Test Rule

01.04.2025 3

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Why I'm Not Deleting My 23andMe Genetic Data

27.03.2025 20

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This Mouse Has Two Biological Dads?!

25.03.2025 4

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The Trump Administration's HIV Prevention Contradictions

22.03.2025 7

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Researchers Used Mosquitos To Deliver Malaria Vaccines

16.03.2025 10

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Are COVID-19 Vaccines Safe and Effective?

15.03.2025 9

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Review: D.C. Museum Exhibit Illuminates the Brutalities of Slavery

14.03.2025 7

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How Many Americans Have Died of COVID-19?

13.03.2025 20

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Do Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin Work?

12.03.2025 20

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Do Face Masks Work?

10.03.2025 3

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So Much For RFK, Jr.'s Promise of 'Radical Transparency' at HHS

01.03.2025 10

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Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Shows Potential in Early Trial

28.02.2025 3

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Unvaccinated Kid Sadly Dies of Measles in Texas

27.02.2025 20

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Just Asking Questions About RFK Jr.'s Senate Hearing

30.01.2025 3

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Is This New Chinese AI a 'Sputnik Moment'?

27.01.2025 9

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Stargate: Artificial Superintelligence in 4 Years?

22.01.2025 3

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Trump To Withdraw From Paris Climate Change Agreement, Again

21.01.2025 10

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2024 Was the Hottest Year On Record

10.01.2025 4

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Surgeon General Gins Up a Questionable Drinking Causes Cancer Scare

Alcohol Ronald Bailey | 1.6.2025 5:30 PM Our national health scold, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, issued an advisory on his way out of office,...

07.01.2025 30

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A Rancher Cloned a Giant Sheep. The Feds Jailed Him for Allegedly Risking Ecological Disaster.

Innovation Ronald Bailey | From the February 2025 issue Montana rancher Arthur "Jack" Schubarth, 81, succeeded in cloning a wild Marco Polo argali...

06.01.2025 5

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Moderate Drinking Linked to Lower Overall Mortality Rate, Says National Academy of Sciences

Alcohol Ronald Bailey | 12.31.2024 7:00 AM "When it comes to alcohol consumption, there is no safe amount that does not affect health," declared...

31.12.2024 7

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