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Doug Hagmann dispels rumors (better audio)

agent_X — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:20:02 +0000

Doug Hagmann dispels rumors (better audio)Same as previous (essentially) – better audio quality.

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Urgent action alert: EPA about to raise allowable concentrations of glyphosate on food crops, edible oils and animal feed – comments needed by July 1

agent_X — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:30:02 +0000

This is an urgent action alert from Natural News and the Health Ranger. Public comments are due by July 1 to object to new EPA regulations which are already in place, allowing glyphosate contamination of food crops, edible oils and waterways at concentrations which are…

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New paper on agnotology and scientific consensus

agent_X — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:10:02 +0000

Agnotology is the study of ignorance and how it’s produced. For example, examining how misinformation can generate misconceptions about climate change. An interesting (and influential, at least in my case) paper on this topic is Agnotology as a teaching tool: Learning climate science by studying misinformation by Daniel Bedford, a professor at Weber State University, Utah. Bedford explains how examining and refuting misinformation is actually a powerful way to teach climate science, sharpen critical thinking skills and raise awareness of the scientific method. He then illustrates this with case studies applied in his own college classroom. This paper opened my eyes to the educational opportunities in addressing misinformation – an approach I adopted in the chapters ‘Understanding Climate Change Denial’ and ‘Rebuttals to Climate Myths’ in the textbook Climate Change Science: A Modern Synthesis.Recently, David Legates, Willie Soon and William Briggs published a paper in the journal Science & Education, Learning and Teaching Climate Science: The Perils of Consensus Knowledge Using Agnotology. The paper comments extensively on Bedford’s agnotology paper. Unfortunately, it comprehensively misrepresents Bedford’s arguments. Consequently, Daniel Bedford and I have co-authored a response to Legate’s paper that was just published in Science & Education: Agnotology, Scientific Consensus, and…

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Doug Hagmann dispels rumors

agent_X — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:20:02 +0000

Doug Hagmann dispels rumorsDispelling internet rumors.

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Scary True Ghost Stories! Real Life Haunted Hotel! (DE Ep. 41)

agent_X — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:00:03 +0000

Scary True Ghost Stories! Real Life Haunted Hotel! (DE Ep. 41)Ghost stories video! True scary stories from real life haunted Texas hotel. Watch these terrifying stories of a paranormal American Haunting! There are many …

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Callers Sound Off on The Crashing Global Economy

agent_X — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:10:08 +0000

Callers Sound Off on The Crashing Global EconomyOn today's show, Alex welcomes television broadcaster and economic analyst Max Keiser to break down the fallout from Bilderberg 2013 coverage and the collaps…

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Govt Exploiting Buggy Software to Spy on You

agent_X — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:10:06 +0000

Govt Exploiting Buggy Software to Spy on YouBuggy software isn't just annoying—the right compromised code can leave private information vulnerable to clever hackers for as long as the problem is unnoti…

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Supreme Court Paves Way for Illegals to Vote

agent_X — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:10:02 +0000

Supreme Court Paves Way for Illegals to VoteThe Supreme Court ruled today that states cannot on their own require would-be voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before using a federal registration sys…

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Vegetarian diet again shown to lower all-cause risk of death, especially in men

agent_X — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:30:40 +0000

Extensive research over the past decade continues to show a distinct risk reduction for those following a predominately vegetarian-style diet. In prior research works, scientists have documented the effect of eating a vegetarian diet with a significant reduction in the…

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Line dancing video proves IRS is a culture of giggling control freaks with no connection to the real world

agent_X — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:30:39 +0000

In yet another stunningly insensitive example of just how out-of-control the federal leviathan has become – and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), especially – another absurd ‘training video’ has surfaced featuring IRS employees and paid for with your tax dollars. The…

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Consumer Alert: Secret trade agreements threaten food safety, subvert democracy

agent_X — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:30:36 +0000

If you think the U.S. government is doing a sub-par job of keeping your food safe, brace yourself. You could soon be eating imported seafood, beef or chicken products that don’t meet even basic U.S. food safety standards. Under two new trade agreements, currently in…

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United Nations: Eat more ants and grasshoppers to avoid starvation

agent_X — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:30:33 +0000

World hunger would not really be that big of an issue if people would just eat more insects as part of their normal diet. This is the basic premise of a new report recently put out by the United Nations (U.N.) Food and Agriculture Organization (F.A.O.), which actually…

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Adult prescription use directly linked to poisoning of children: Study

agent_X — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:30:30 +0000

Drugs are harming and killing American children at an astounding rate these days – no, not ‘street’ drugs like cocaine and ecstasy, but rather pharmaceutical drugs like statins and opioid painkillers. And a recent study found that these same pharmaceuticals, which are…

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Coming to a store near you: GMO plants with synthetic biology that makes them glow

agent_X — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:30:28 +0000

A team of researchers from Stanford University in California wants you to donate your hard-earned money to them so they can continue to develop an unapproved genetically-modified (GM) plant that literally glows to generate light. The so-called ‘Glowing Plant Project…

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Toxic phthalates in vibrators

agent_X — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:30:25 +0000

Sexual products are often overlooked by consumers when it comes to health concerns and this needs to change. With over 80 percent of women in the United States having used a vibrator, they have become quite commonplace and are sold in drugstores and even Tupperware style…

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More countries abandon GM seeds, crops in response to widespread public disapproval

agent_X — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:30:22 +0000

Two more countries have taken a bold stand against genetically-modified organisms (GMOs), according to new reports. The South American nation of Venezuela is currently in the process of crafting legislation to bar transgenic seeds and crops from entering the country…

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Why walnuts are the ultimate brain food

agent_X — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:30:20 +0000

The local pharmacy is promoting memory and mood-enhancing drugs. The advertisement says ‘if coffee is a socially acceptable drug, then why not this?’ This is the age of instant gratification with a huge debate in tow about the ethics of peddling and consuming drugs for…

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Massive vaccine scandal exposes government lies and psyops

agent_X — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:30:16 +0000

(NaturalNews)If you control the use of words and numbers, you can make trillions of dollars, and you can hide scandals that would otherwise take you down into infamy and prison. You can pretty much operate a whole sector of society and remain untouched. Nowhere is this more…

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Obamacare exchanges already a logistical nightmare; most states to miss deadlines

agent_X — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:30:15 +0000

For months we here at Natural News have been warning readers that the medical ‘reform’ measure known as Obamacare is a regulatory nightmare that will destroy the U.S. healthcare system and raise its costs astronomically – despite the lies the president and his minions…

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Gutfeld: We are witnessing a ‘collapse in trust of big government’

agent_X — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:30:12 +0000

To hear Fox News host and author Greg Gutfeld tell it, Americans are quickly losing faith ‘in trust of big government,’ but then again, if you ask me, I’d say it’s about time. In a May 31 column posted over at Breitbart News, Gutfeld prefaced his observation thus…

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