David Ropeik

EPA eliminates mention of fossil fuels in website on warming's causes. Scientists call it misleading The Environmental Protection Agency has removed references to fossil fuels from its online page about climate change causes.

Can anyone in the Trump cult be so devoid of independent thought that are not embarrassed by this? We're talking denial of high school-level science.https://apnews.com/article/epa-climate-change-censorship-fossil-fuels-1c83071f9eea81e8e31ebad0c4444775?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=share

Does the news reflect what we die from? What do Americans die from, and what do the New York Times, Washington Post, and Fox News report on?

THIS JUST IN! The news media do not report on the causes of death in proportion to what actually kills us!
ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...

THIS is the way risk SHOULD be reported. Bravo Debby Koenig
www.webmd.com/diet/news/20...

Dear Right Wing extremists (that's you, White House)
Understandable you're upset by left-wing violence, but (from the Economist

Opinion | America’s New Segregation

Spot-on insight, and a challenge to The 1619 Project thinking. CLASS divisions are at the core of what is tearing us all apart. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/o...

Sen/Dr Bill Cassidy, R.LA, OKing RFK Jr for HHS Sec. "I practiced medicine for 30 years...After seeing patients die from vaccine preventable diseases...witnessing the safety monitoring, and the effectiveness of immunization...simply, vaccines save lives.

The deaths to come now are on YOU, Doctor.

Tribalism Overwhelms Reason Because It Keeps Us Safe Many have noted that we are getting more tribal. But few have recognized how our instinctive need for belonging to a tribe stems from the most basic instinct of all: survival.

Simply saying people are tribal isn't enough. Being true to our tribe is biologically tied to our survival instinct. Any challenge to your tribe, or disloyalty to your tribe, sets off a Fight or Flight response. It's autonomic, WAY more powerful than reason
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-...

@hern.bsky.social Re: Is AI making us dumber. May be interesting to know that the ease of AI appeals directly to the brain's instinct to work no harder than necessary, evolved since the brain uses more calories than any other organ and back in the day food was no sure thing. @eaterofsun.bsky.social

As the mindless paranoid witch hunt against the slightest taint of possible disloyalty to a Dictator continues, it patently makes Americans, including those who voted for him and remain loyal, less safe.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...

Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

Word now offers AI options. For kicks I asked for an essay on the psychology of risk perception, about which I've written a ton, including a book. INFURIATINGLY, many of the AI passages are only thinly different from my own language in the book. How is this not outright copyright theft?

Trump EPA moves to roll back rules projected to save billions of dollars and thousands of lives When the head of the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this year announced a massive rollback of environmental regulations, he said it would spark a “Golden Age” for the American economy.

Bravo Seth Borenstein. Phenomenal environmental reporting on the prospective death toll from Trump's rollback of enviro regs to please the fossil fuel industry apnews.com/article/epa-...

@carlzimmer.com thought you might enjoy knowing that I jus saw Airborne for sale in a bookstore in Bucharest!

GO Fish Hippies. Tottenham Hotspur Stadium capacity of more than 62,000 could host more than Bodo's entire population of roughly 50,000.

Sorry, but this is blatant radiophobia. Entire cities were razed!!!??? By nuclear BOMB explosions, not the low doses people got from Chernobyl or Fukushima, which careful study has found caused very few cancer deaths (chernobyl) and NONE (Fukushima).

Important caution about a viral risk warning...but missing a HUGE additional caveat. The "RadRat" calculator assumes mutations that lead to cancer from tiny tiny doses, and a growing number of radiation biologists believe at the lowest doses ionizing radiation is NOT carcinogenic at all.

'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

THIS is the blind bigoted hate of "others" that runs deep in the blood of Donald Trump and Steven Miller and all the despicable people foaming at the mouth, and disregarding basic human decency as well as due process of law, in their lustful targeting of "immigrants. kfor.com/news/local/w...

What alarmist horseshit! And the Times knows it, since they reported that the basis for the "harm" claim came from a study that held the test utensils in boiling oil for 15 MINUTES. Classic example of environmentalists masquerading as scientists to find a new chemical bogeyman.

Many Jews say Trump is politicizing the fight against antisemitism Many groups welcome Trump’s focus on fighting bigotry but say his approach is harmful.

The Trump administration is quite transparently using anti-semitism as a pretext for authoritarian crackdowns on speech & association, and some Jews are saying "no thanks."

DeLorenzo's tomato pies in the Chambersburg neighborhood of, Trenton NJ.

oppose anything loudly enough and the media is almost forced into it's comfortable knee-jerk "to be balanced we have to include all sides" response. It took years for U.S. environmental journalists (I was one) to lead the way out of that hole on climate change

Tribe, baby, it's all about the safety and protection of being a loyal and well-accepted member of a tribe. Intrinsic human biology

I suggest that we also include in that conversation what government is, and what it does. Sorry Ronald Reagan and everyone on the radical right. Government is NOT the problem. Government, which can be too invasive for sure, does all sorts of things that make modern civilization possible

The Environmental Working Group is, sadly, among the leading naive proponents of the 'naturalistic fallacy', a Back to the Garden of Eden form of environmentalism that blames pretty much all our ills on human civilization in one way or another. Such absolutism does great great harm.

Public health leaders, distrustful of RFK Jr., stand up project to defend vaccines Some key public health figures are taking an extraordinary step to try to shore up U.S. vaccination policy, feared to be under threat from health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Fearing that government information about vaccines & vaccination policy may be corrupted under an anti-vax health secretary, some public health leaders are exploring how to safeguard the enterprise of vaccinations in the United States. www.statnews.com/2025/04/24/v...

Vance Outlines U.S. Plan for Ukraine That Sharply Favors Russia (Gift Article) Vice President JD Vance said the cease-fire plan would freeze territory along the current front lines of the Russia-Ukraine conflict and that the U.S. would “walk away” if both parties did not agree.

It's a safe bet that Putin has somne really embarassing compromat on Trump. He fu-king OWNS him. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/w...

congrats!!!! SO important.

Live updates: El Salvador’s president says he won’t release wrongly deported man back to US President Trump is hosting Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, at the White House. The nation is holding Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported from the U.S.

Dear Supreme Court. Fu-k You, Part One.
Despite a court order, the White House bars the AP from Oval Office event apnews.com/live/donald-... apnews.com/live/donald-...

Yes Alan @alanlevinovitz.bsky.social wrote a book on the Naturalistic Fallacy and comments rightly on it's impact on food. But that heuristic is SO much broader...how about fear of "plastics" (not natural), "chemicals" (not the ones on food) fear of nuclear radiation but not the sun. Needs mention?