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Is Your Tap Water Making You Sick?

by Dr. Joseph Mercola Data show that just two disinfection byproducts offered compelling evidence that a cumulative risk assessment would reveal health damage from contaminants found in drinking water The Environmental Working Group’s Tap Water Database is the most complete source of information compiled from data in nearly 50,000 systems users can search by zip […]

Regulatory Capture is Killing Us, and We Are Two Steps Away from the Totalitarian Fascist Regulatory States of America

by James Lyons-Weiler via Popular Rationalism From the EPA to the FDA, the massive influence of corporations on the agencies tasked with regulating them has proven to be a deadly experiment in American-Style Fascism. When the airline industry has a disaster, it goes under review by the National Transportation Safety Board. When corporations dump a […]

What Does It Mean to ‘Trust the Science’?

If someone ever tells me to “trust the science” or the “science is settled,” I become instantly leery. This sounds a lot like what the great Murray Rothbard referred to as scientism, not science. Rothbard elaborates, Scientism is the profoundly unscientific attempt to transfer uncritically the methodology of the physical sciences to the study of […]