John McDonald on Science & Technology
Science is real the glue holding our society together, not the politicians in the spotlight claiming the credit. Thanks to improvements in the agricultural process and disease control, we're not hungry and sick enough to riot. Thanks to mass-manufacturing and the computer revolution, we can live a standard of living that could not have been dreamed about just a few generations ago. Even if our technology brings us new problems, these problems seem almost insignificant from the physical struggle, disease, and starvation that science has already saved us from.
Latest Science Posts:
Taco and Cookie Diets? Really?
Why put any effort into losing weight? Fad diets have been around for a while – and now we even have fast-food chains making claims about weight loss – but no one seems to be learning a simple lesson about how human metabolism works.
Worried about CO2? Don’t Look at Your Water
Drink your meds and stop making CO2 – a look at the distraction and insanity that threatens the environmental movement and real environmental progress.
My Prescription for the Flu
Fighting the flu – the cheap and old fashioned way.