By Michael Bastasch West Virginia Republican Rep. David McKinley will offer up an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Wednesday afternoon that would prevent the White House from sending funds to “the U.S. Global Change Research Program National Climate Assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report, the United Nation’s Agenda 21 sustainable…
By Breanna Deutsch New research has found that electronic cigarettes are 60 percent more effective at helping cigarette addicts kick their habit than nicotine gum, the patch or going cold turkey, reports The Daily Mail. Researchers at the University of London monitored nearly 6,000 smokers over five years who attempted to quit traditional cigarettes without the aid…
By Brendan Bordelon Canadian geneticist David Suzuki urged Western governments to lock up politicians who question man-made climate change, telling PBS’ Bill Moyers “our politicians should be thrown in the slammer for willful blindness!” Suzuki appeared on “Moyers and Company” earlier this month to express his abject frustration over politicians, in both Canada and the…
The Blaze is reporting about a video that was released that shows a toxic brain controlling worm which escapes the body of a dying praying mantis. The worm is believed to be a Nematomorpha. From IFLScience: If so, and it seems to be right, what you are about to read is arguably more horrific than…
Did you know that Earth is just a big, spinning rock floating through space? And did you also know that the universe is like a giant game of dodgeball, where at anytime you could get pelted with another giant rock? The difference of course is this isn’t a game and if you get hit with…
Bush “did the best he could.” Follow TLR on Google+ Actor Charlie Sheen once believed former president George W. Bush to be responsible for one of the most horrific crimes of the last decade: the September 11th attacks. In 2009, Sheen said that the Bush administration had staged the attacks in order to justify…
Christina Hoff Sommers: “The de-Tom Sawyering of American boys should not be on anyone’s agenda.” Follow TLR on Google+ By high school, one in five boys is now diagnosed with ADHD, a hard-hitting new column in Esquire reports. Writer Ryan D’Agostino notes that ADHD diagnoses have skyrocketed, afflicting 3 percent of American schoolchildren in…
A woman from the Netherlands has received an implanted skull that was the result of 3D printing technologies, has the technology changed the future of medicine forever? Follow TLR on Google+ The unnamed patient suffered from a chronic bone disorder, causing her skull to continue to grow abnormally and harm her eyesight while striking her…
We should “back up humanity,” Page reasons. Subscribe to us on iTunes. Follow TLR on Google+ Larry Page is the CEO of Google, the world’s third-largest company. Speaking to Charlie Rose on Wednesday, the colossally successful entrepreneur said he would leave his tens of billions of dollars to Elon Musk in his will. Musk, a…
Science Denial Is Not Exclusive To Right Wing Fundamentalists by David Jerale In a column for Scientific American January of last year, Michael Shermer, the founder of The Skeptics Society, exposed what he calls “The Liberals’ War on Science.” Shermer observes that, while it is true that Republicans are more overwhelmingly opposed to well-established scientific…