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Who Will Review the Reviewers?
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The National Academy of Sciences has removed its climate chapter from the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence while it conducts an “independent review” of the process used to produce it.
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That sounds reassuring, but NAS...
The Salmon Wars, Part 3: Foreign Governments Funding Special Interests
Salmon is a healthy source of protein in high consumer demand. Often as expensive as the finest beef cuts, salmon has a special place on the global dinner plate. It wasn’t always the case. In the 1800s, wild salmon was so abundant, cheap an...
The Salmon Wars, Part 2: Foundation Tactics Undermining Chilean Salmon Farmers
The first part of the Salmon Wars showed how large philanthropic foundations have invested hundreds of millions of dollars into programs that take aim at Chilean salmon aquaculture. These massive multi-billion dollar organizations coordinat...
The Chilean Salmon Wars, Part 1: The Foundations Spawning Dissent
Aquaculture has always been a curious activist campaign arena. While environmental NGOs have entered their third generation of campaigns on ocean protection and over-fishing, health NGOs have regularly extolled the virtues of seafood as a h...
When the sizzle stops selling, hire better cooks
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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a major report on July 16 declaring that individual weather events can now be robustly attributed to climate change.
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The report’s acknowledgments r...
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