Farmers love selling the stuff because it is easy to grow and will grow anywhere. Soy cannot be eaten raw, it needs extensive processing before it can be eaten. Even then, it is high in isoflavones (like female hormones) and is seriously damaging to the thyroid.

Feeding a child soy-based baby formula is like giving them 5 birth control pills per day. Male babies fed soy milk may never develop an interest in girls.

Yeah, like Gore-Bull Warming!

Mr. Milloy is a known shill for big oil & tobacco. He has regularily recieved money from astroturf groups like “CropLife America” (formorly the American Crop Protection Association) - a group of pesticide producers. His site “Junk Science” is more aptly named than you may have first recognized.

However that has nothing to with the truth of the claims presented about DDT. Except he is basically wrong.

DDT has continued to be used selectively around the world and when it hasn’t been it was often because of overuse as an agricultural pesticide. Resistance evolved in mosquitos and this often no longer made it cost effective.

Some environmental groups have aggressively campaigned against DDT - not always for for reasons that were accurate - but their impact has been exagerated. And the idea that you can get from a few environmentalists are “chicken littles” to saying that Racheal Carson is worse than Hiler is ridiculous.

Check out a slightly more balanced view from an entymologist:
http://membracid.wordpress.com/2007/06/07/ddt-junk-science-malaria-and -the-attack-on-rachel-carson/
quote:
“DDT is NOT a cure-all solution for malaria. It has to be used–if it is used–carefully, with planning, evaluation, and forethought. It’s easy to understand why some folks want DDT to be a panacea–Malaria is a horrible disease, and children suffer the most. But jumping in and randomly spraying DDT can have the potential to make things worse, not better, in the long run.”

Deltoid’s series is enlightening as well:
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2007/05/who_put_out_the_contract_on_ra .php

It is now universally accepted that when BC/AD was calculated, those doing it got the year wrong. So Jesus was actually born in a BC year, which, you are bound to agree, causes some philosophical problems with the definition.

To make matters worse, there is no year zero. So even if they had got it exactly right, he would still have been born in 1 BC, because he was not born on New Year’s eve.

BCE/CE has neither of those complications and we all still know what it really refers to.

the Roman emperors used gold cups to show their wealth but did not line the cups with any other method. it has been theorized that the gold molecules that leaked into their water/wine combined with the lead molecules already in the water, was the main cause of dementia/insanity that so many emperors seemed to suffer from. i dont know if it is 100% true but it makes sense

LOL Bob! and Mooncake, I agree.

@bob: yea, word.

I always thought the problem with DDT was that over-use made some insects resistant. (Quck Henry- the Flit!)

Religious fundamentalism can easily be added to this list of culturally acceptable delusions . . . the problem many people in America seem to have is that we perceive fundamentalists being everyone other than US.

That being said, Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins are douchebags representing the same ideological ignorance, just batting for the other team. Bring no the Robocalypse!

Wasn’t there a public official in UK, who fed a hamburger to his granddaughter at the beginning of the the mad cow disease crisis? He would be a good entry for this list.

http://www.junkscience.com/ddtfaq.html

Perhaps the Christians in this thread should spend a little less time worrying about BCE/CE/BC/AD, and spend more time trying to be Christ-like. You know, kind, loving, compassionate etc.

This is generally why I don’t care for religion .. no one seems to be able to live it.

I am not a Christian, thank God, but I do have to agree the whole CE thing just seems like crap. I guess we are stuck with the Gregorian calendar (which doesn’t even match up with when the alleged savior was allegedly born) since it is convenient and well-known… sort of like standard measurement in the US.

Really, if you think the calendar represents an endorsement of your religious views and not a convenience/force of habit/way of telling time, well, you’re probably dumb enough to be offended when someone uses CE instead of AD.

Rubbish.

“Studies” I like that. On what, mice? Taken in what quantity and over what period of time?

The only known “neurological disorder” it has ever been known to cause, is among environmental leftists who have willingly sacrificed millions of third world children, victims of malaria, on the alter of their delusions.