Here Is the Worst Anti-Science BS of 2017
Mother Jones Illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On a rainy day in April, 100,000 demonstrators—led by some of the nation’s most prominent scientists—converged on the National Mall for the first ever March for Science. It was Earth Day, and many of them were there to protest the environmental policies…
Will Republicans Ever Get Disgusted by Donald Trump’s Open Bigotry?
C-SPAN Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Politico’s Susan Glasser did a podcast last week with Max Boot and Eliot Cohen, both of whom are Republican foreign policy hawks deeply disturbed by the election of Donald Trump. But Boot is clear-eyed enough to see that the biggest damage Trump is doing…
Quote of the Day: Boarding Pass Scanners Are Just “Beedoop Machines”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Yesterday’s big social media event was a series of tweets from supermodel Chrissy Teigen, who was on board an ANA flight to Tokyo when it suddenly turned around and headed back to Los Angeles. The reason, it turned out, was a manifest problem: the plane…
New Zealand Study Provides More Support for Lead-Crime Hypothesis
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Guess what? There’s another lead-crime study out! You can feel the excitement, can’t you? But this time there’s a twist: it’s a prospective study of data from Dunedin, New Zealand’s fourth-largest city, and the accompanying press release says bluntly, “We found no clear indication that…
Fired, Resigned, Sidelined, Ousted. Here’s the 2017 Class of Trump Exiles.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. What do the flamboyant Anthony “The Mooch” Scaramucci and the stolid former FBI director James Comey have in common? They are two members of an exclusive group of people who lost their official jobs during Trump’s first year as president. Some, like Sally Yates, the former Acting…
Nursing Homes Violate the Rules a Lot. Trump’s Answer: Get Rid of the Rules.
Sebastian Willnow/DPA via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The LA Times reports that nursing homes are cesspools of infection: A Kaiser Health News analysis of four years of federal inspection records shows 74% of nursing homes have been cited for lapses in infection control — more than for any…