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href="/content/raw_farm_milk_in_california_recalled_due_to_bird_flu">RAW FARM milk in California recalled Due To Bird Flu</a></h1> <p class="node-other-info"> Dec 04 2024 | <a href="/content/raw_farm_milk_in_california_recalled_due_to_bird_flu#comments"> comment(s)</a> </p> </div> <div class="node-content"> The 'natural' movement is not evidence-based but the beliefs of progressives that modern science is killing us and ancient ways are more nutritious usually aren't harmful. Your risk of <em>E. coli </em>and higher levels of toxic pesticides from organic food is certainly greater, but in a relative risk sense all food is safe.<br /><br />Except raw milk. Like sushi when you are pregnant, the risks, in this case 700X the harmful outbreaks of pasteurized milk, are not worth it, and anyone who has seen a dairy farm and isn't selling raw milk to rich coastal elites knows it.<br /> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-2 views-row-even"> <div class="node teaser" id="node-257237"> <div class="node-meta"> <a href="/content/antiscience_progressives_are_cheering_trumpera_science_being_banned_before_he_takes_office_again"><img src="https://www.science20.com/files/images/center_for_food_safety_monsanto.png" alt="Anti-Science Progressives Are Cheering Trump-Era Science Being Banned Before He Takes Office Again" title="Anti-Science Progressives Are Cheering Trump-Era Science Being Banned Before He Takes Office Again" /></a> <h1 class="node-title" id="node-257237-title"><a href="/content/antiscience_progressives_are_cheering_trumpera_science_being_banned_before_he_takes_office_again">Anti-Science Progressives Are Cheering Trump-Era Science Being Banned Before He Takes Office Again</a></h1> <p class="node-other-info"> Dec 03 2024 | <a href="/content/antiscience_progressives_are_cheering_trumpera_science_being_banned_before_he_takes_office_again#comments"> comment(s)</a> </p> </div> <div class="node-content"> If you read Twitter, and probably Bluesky, if anyone reads that, Republicans are in a War On Science and the proof is (1) being Republican and (2) Robert F. Kennedy Jr., former darling of Democrats and once pushed to run EPA by President Obama, is in their camp.<br /><br />Except he didn't take his allies against science with him. They are still firmly anti-science progressives, which means they still vote Democrat, and they are still cheering every time science is suppressed.<br /> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd"> <div class="node teaser" id="node-257232"> <div class="node-meta"> <a href="/content/electric_cars_have_killed_nissan"><img src="https://www.science20.com/files/images/nissan_leaf.jpg" alt="Electric Cars Have Killed Nissan" title="Electric Cars Have Killed Nissan" /></a> <h1 class="node-title" id="node-257232-title"><a href="/content/electric_cars_have_killed_nissan">Electric Cars Have Killed Nissan</a></h1> <p class="node-other-info"> Nov 27 2024 | <a href="/content/electric_cars_have_killed_nissan#comments"> comment(s)</a> </p> </div> <div class="node-content"> Their Infiniti car couldn't ruin Nissan, but a climate where government mandates and subsidizes electric cars, which means deviating down to the revenue and running lean, are going to put them out of business. <br /><br />Because <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181002180513/https://newsroom.nissan-global.com/releases/release-36a71146ed04eaba0f0dff94b50d1196" target="_blank">they were the world's largest electric car company</a>, and they foolishly believed politicians who said if government forced the product on people, a miracle of capitalism would occur and consumers would like it.<br /><br /><img src="/files/images/nissan_leaf.jpg" alt="" /><br /><em>Leaf. Credit: Nissan.</em><br /> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-4 views-row-even"> <div class="node teaser" id="node-257230"> <div class="node-meta"> <a href="/content/if_you_like_thanksgiving_thank_capitalism"><img src="https://www.science20.com/files/images/jean_leon_gerome_ferris_1912_paintingthe_first_thanksgiving_1621.png" alt="If You Like Thanksgiving, Thank Capitalism" title="If You Like Thanksgiving, Thank Capitalism" /></a> <h1 class="node-title" id="node-257230-title"><a href="/content/if_you_like_thanksgiving_thank_capitalism">If You Like Thanksgiving, Thank Capitalism</a></h1> <p class="node-other-info"> Nov 27 2024 | <a href="/content/if_you_like_thanksgiving_thank_capitalism#comments"> comment(s)</a> </p> </div> <div class="node-content"> Europeans who emigrated to the colonies in America had a dream of religious freedom, denied to them by European elites and government-mandated beliefs, and legal equality, absolutely impossible in England if you were poor, but they also believed in an economic Utopia.<br /><br /><br />That last belief nearly cost them their lives. William Bradford, the first leader of that Massachusetts Bay colony, <a href="https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1650bradford.asp#New%20governor,%20first%20marriage" target="_blank">eventually conceded their socialist ideal failed</a>. Free riders who chose not to work nearly doomed them. By 1621, a year after landing in Massachusetts, they had changed from socialism to a system where each family owned their land and worked it for their family.<br /> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-5 views-row-odd"> <div class="node teaser" id="node-257226"> <div class="node-meta"> <a href="/content/queer_death_studies_and_shrimp_welcome_to_humanities_academia"><img src="https://www.science20.com/files/images/brine_shrimp_queer_studies.png" alt="Queer Death Studies And Shrimp: Welcome To Humanities Academia" title="Queer Death Studies And Shrimp: Welcome To Humanities Academia" /></a> <h1 class="node-title" id="node-257226-title"><a href="/content/queer_death_studies_and_shrimp_welcome_to_humanities_academia">Queer Death Studies And Shrimp: Welcome To Humanities Academia</a></h1> <p class="node-other-info"> Nov 26 2024 | <a href="/content/queer_death_studies_and_shrimp_welcome_to_humanities_academia#comments"> comment(s)</a> </p> </div> <div class="node-content"> The abstract for a new humanities paper published by the former Nazis who now own a surprising chunk of science media (Holtzbrinck Publishing Group) reads like it was created using a postmodernism generator.<br /><br />Maybe it was. It's hard to imagine a human with any critical thinking let this go by, much less the dreaded Reviewer #2, but a pay-to-publish journal like this <em>Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics</em> is really just "editorial review" - the credit card has to clear and then it gets the same level of scrutiny as a paper about astrology gets in an astrology magazine.<br /><br /><img src="/files/images/brine_shrimp_queer_studies.png" alt="" /><br /> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-6 views-row-even"> <div class="node teaser" id="node-257225"> <div class="node-meta"> <a href="/content/fake_cheese_now_with_more_climate_justice"><img src="https://www.science20.com/files/images/raynors_vegan_cheese.jpg" alt="Fake Cheese, Now With More Climate Justice" title="Fake Cheese, Now With More Climate Justice" /></a> <h1 class="node-title" id="node-257225-title"><a href="/content/fake_cheese_now_with_more_climate_justice">Fake Cheese, Now With More Climate Justice</a></h1> <p class="node-other-info"> Nov 26 2024 | <a href="/content/fake_cheese_now_with_more_climate_justice#comments"> comment(s)</a> </p> </div> <div class="node-content"> A brand of fake cheese - it must be that Europe doesn't require standards of identity so bacon can label itself vegan if cheese can - is making the rounds on social media again because of its virtue signaling to wealthy progressives that they are saving the planet even more ethically.<br /><br />By posting their <em>virtual</em> carbon cost. <br /><br /><img src="/files/images/raynors_vegan_cheese.jpg" alt="" /><br /><br /><img src="/files/images/doetary_emission_cheese.jpg" alt="" /><br /> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-7 views-row-odd"> <div class="node teaser" id="node-257202"> <div class="node-meta"> <a href="/content/if_the_science_disagrees_with_your_agendasuppress_it"><img src="https://www.science20.com/files/images/johanna_olson-kennedy_md.png" alt="If The Science Disagrees With Your Agenda...Suppress It?" title="If The Science Disagrees With Your Agenda...Suppress It?" /></a> <h1 class="node-title" id="node-257202-title"><a href="/content/if_the_science_disagrees_with_your_agendasuppress_it">If The Science Disagrees With Your Agenda...Suppress It?</a></h1> <p class="node-other-info"> Oct 24 2024 | <a href="/content/if_the_science_disagrees_with_your_agendasuppress_it#comments"> comment(s)</a> </p> </div> <div class="node-content"> Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy is a prominent physician and long-time evangelist for chemical interventions among trans youth and has been conducting those chemical interventions for nearly two decades.<br /><br />It remains controversial, critics say young people can't provide informed consent for many, many things but Dr. Olson-Kennedy wanted to do a U.S. study similar to one <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20646177/" target="_blank">done in Netherlands</a> which found kids given these interventions were happier.(1)<br /> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-8 views-row-even"> <div class="node teaser" id="node-257196"> <div class="node-meta"> <a href="/content/another_week_another_claim_about_caloric_restriction_being_science"><img src="https://www.science20.com/files/images/mice_longevity.png" alt="Another Week, Another Claim About Caloric Restriction Being Science" title="Another Week, Another Claim About Caloric Restriction Being Science" /></a> <h1 class="node-title" id="node-257196-title"><a href="/content/another_week_another_claim_about_caloric_restriction_being_science">Another Week, Another Claim About Caloric Restriction Being Science</a></h1> <p class="node-other-info"> Oct 15 2024 | <a href="/content/another_week_another_claim_about_caloric_restriction_being_science#comments"> comment(s)</a> </p> </div> <div class="node-content"> <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08026-3" target="_blank">A new paper</a> finds that caloric restriction increases lifespan. It doesn't in humans. The only documented times it increases lifespan is in mice weaned from birth on a starvation diet. <br /><br />Humans are not going to starve their babies.<br /><br />Obesity certainly shortens lifespan but that doesn't make calories a scientific antimetabole. Yet despite this study being in mice, and therefore only <font color="red"><strong>EXPLORATORY</strong></font>, evangelists for longevity claims, the strange cousin of Singularity believers, are touting this as if it's meaningful. <br /><br /><img src="/files/images/mice_longevity.png" alt="" /> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-9 views-row-odd"> <div class="node teaser" id="node-257195"> <div class="node-meta"> <a href="/content/lifestyle_guru_dr_casey_means_believes_plants_are_tiny_green_people"><img src="https://www.science20.comhttps://www.science20.com/files/images/usrtk_russia.jpg" alt="Lifestyle Guru Dr. Casey Means Believes Plants Are Tiny Green People" title="Lifestyle Guru Dr. Casey Means Believes Plants Are Tiny Green People" /></a> <h1 class="node-title" id="node-257195-title"><a href="/content/lifestyle_guru_dr_casey_means_believes_plants_are_tiny_green_people">Lifestyle Guru Dr. Casey Means Believes Plants Are Tiny Green People</a></h1> <p class="node-other-info"> Oct 15 2024 | <a href="/content/lifestyle_guru_dr_casey_means_believes_plants_are_tiny_green_people#comments"> comment(s)</a> </p> </div> <div class="node-content"> Unless you think plants are little people, so you don't understand any science, it is impossible to believe a weedkiller lowers testosterone.<br /><br />Environmental predatorts still sell it to the gullible. Lawsuits are how they make their money. <br /><br />If you do believe in that plants are tiny green people and share a biological pathway and therefore a weedkiller can give you cancer, you don't trust science, you simply want to believe prejudiced epidemiology when it matches your bias against science. <br /> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-10 views-row-even"> <div class="node teaser" id="node-257170"> <div class="node-meta"> <a href="/content/usda_implicated_in_tribal_food_shortages"><img src="https://www.science20.com/files/images/stacy_dean.png" alt="USDA Implicated In Tribal Food Shortages" title="USDA Implicated In Tribal Food Shortages" /></a> <h1 class="node-title" id="node-257170-title"><a href="/content/usda_implicated_in_tribal_food_shortages">USDA Implicated In Tribal Food Shortages</a></h1> <p class="node-other-info"> Sep 11 2024 | <a href="/content/usda_implicated_in_tribal_food_shortages#comments"> comment(s)</a> </p> </div> <div class="node-content"> The Biden-Harris administration is under fire from Native-American and agriculture groups for repeating a food shortage fiasco that also occurred during the Obama-Biden administration.<br /><br />The United States Department of Agriculture met with tribal leaders earlier this year and said they were switching to a single warehouse and sole contractor. Native leaders, concerned about a repeat of 2014, protested but USDA went ahead and food shortages, canceled food deliveries, and deliveries of expired products occurred starting in April.<br /><br /><img src="/files/images/stacy_dean.png" alt="" /><br /><em>Stacy Dean, Deputy Under Secretary of Agriculture for the Federal Nutrition Program </em><br /> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-11 views-row-odd"> <div class="node teaser" id="node-257165"> <div class="node-meta"> <a href="/content/fda_gives_approval_for_duchenne_muscular_dystrophy_pediatric_treatment"><img src="https://www.science20.com/files/images/ns-050_ncnp-03.png" alt="FDA Gives Approval For Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Pediatric Treatment" title="FDA Gives Approval For Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Pediatric Treatment" /></a> <h1 class="node-title" id="node-257165-title"><a href="/content/fda_gives_approval_for_duchenne_muscular_dystrophy_pediatric_treatment">FDA Gives Approval For Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Pediatric Treatment</a></h1> <p class="node-other-info"> Sep 11 2024 | <a href="/content/fda_gives_approval_for_duchenne_muscular_dystrophy_pediatric_treatment#comments"> comment(s)</a> </p> </div> <div class="node-content"> Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd. has received rare pediatric disease designation for NS-050/NCNP-03, being developed for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Duchenne). The FDA's rare pediatric disease designation is for treatments of serious or life-threatening diseases in children where there are fewer than 200,000 patients in the United States.<br /> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-12 views-row-even"> <div class="node teaser" id="node-257159"> <div class="node-meta"> <a href="/content/american_farmers_feel_twin_pincers_of_high_inflation_and_resulting_low_exports"><img src="https://www.science20.comhttps://www.science20.com/files/images/horse_heaven_hills_wheat.jpg" alt="American Farmers Feel Twin Pincers Of High Inflation And Resulting Low Exports" title="American Farmers Feel Twin Pincers Of High Inflation And Resulting Low Exports" /></a> <h1 class="node-title" id="node-257159-title"><a href="/content/american_farmers_feel_twin_pincers_of_high_inflation_and_resulting_low_exports">American Farmers Feel Twin Pincers Of High Inflation And Resulting Low Exports</a></h1> <p class="node-other-info"> Sep 09 2024 | <a href="/content/american_farmers_feel_twin_pincers_of_high_inflation_and_resulting_low_exports#comments"> comment(s)</a> </p> </div> <div class="node-content"> While the Biden administration brags about the stock market gains for its voters - and he is smart to do so, nearly 80% of America's wealthiest counties vote Democrat - the less fortunate are feeling the impact of a $4 trillion stimulus plan that was great for government workers but just caused inflation to spike upward for everyone else. Food, for example, is up 44% since Biden took office.<br /> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-13 views-row-odd"> <div class="node teaser" id="node-257156"> <div class="node-meta"> <a href="/content/the_us_governments_new_plan_to_prevent_future_hobbit_behavior"><img src="https://www.science20.com/files/images/dr_who_linked_to_air_pollution.png" alt="The US Government's New Plan To Prevent Future Hobbit Behavior" title="The US Government's New Plan To Prevent Future Hobbit Behavior" /></a> <h1 class="node-title" id="node-257156-title"><a href="/content/the_us_governments_new_plan_to_prevent_future_hobbit_behavior">The US Government's New Plan To Prevent Future Hobbit Behavior</a></h1> <p class="node-other-info"> Aug 29 2024 | <a href="/content/the_us_governments_new_plan_to_prevent_future_hobbit_behavior#comments"> comment(s)</a> </p> </div> <div class="node-content"> The Biden administration is in its waning days, but he is not letting up on his breathtaking levels of social authoritarianism. It's not bad enough that the average age of the young people who put men on the moon and World War II are no longer adult enough to be off mommy's health insurance, he has now declared that if they buy pipe tobacco they are at risk for cancer. Or becoming a hobbit.<br /><br />So if you are under age 30, <a href="https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-19481.pdf" target="_blank">get ready to show ID</a>. It is federal law and one more thing store clerks have to obey government about.<br /> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-14 views-row-even"> <div class="node teaser" id="node-257155"> <div class="node-meta"> <a href="/content/the_biden_surgeon_general_just_issued_a_health_advisoryabout_being_a_parent"><img src="https://www.science20.com/files/images/biden_economic_instability.png" alt="The Biden Surgeon General Just Issued A Health Advisory...About Being A Parent" title="The Biden Surgeon General Just Issued A Health Advisory...About Being A Parent" /></a> <h1 class="node-title" id="node-257155-title"><a href="/content/the_biden_surgeon_general_just_issued_a_health_advisoryabout_being_a_parent">The Biden Surgeon General Just Issued A Health Advisory...About Being A Parent</a></h1> <p class="node-other-info"> Aug 29 2024 | <a href="/content/the_biden_surgeon_general_just_issued_a_health_advisoryabout_being_a_parent#comments"> comment(s)</a> </p> </div> <div class="node-content"> One way to groom people into a social authoritarian, centralized government mindset is to keep them in a panic about everything. Then you give everyone a diagnosis and tell them it's not their fault. <br /><br />Using his agencies, President Biden has done a lot to erode confidence in government science and health. He bizarrely tried to use CDC to create nationwide rent control, he got EPA epidemiologists to hijack ponds on family farms under the pretense that they were "navigable waters of the United States", the list goes on.<br /> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-15 views-row-odd"> <div class="node teaser" id="node-257154"> <div class="node-meta"> <a href="/content/tom_girardi_lawyer_in_the_erin_brockovich_case_found_guilty_of_fraud"><img src="https://www.science20.comhttps://www.science20.com/files/images/julia_roberts_erin_brockovich.png" alt="Tom Girardi, Lawyer In The 'Erin Brockovich' Case, Found Guilty Of Fraud" title="Tom Girardi, Lawyer In The 'Erin Brockovich' Case, Found Guilty Of Fraud" /></a> <h1 class="node-title" id="node-257154-title"><a href="/content/tom_girardi_lawyer_in_the_erin_brockovich_case_found_guilty_of_fraud">Tom Girardi, Lawyer In The 'Erin Brockovich' Case, Found Guilty Of Fraud</a></h1> <p class="node-other-info"> Aug 28 2024 | <a href="/content/tom_girardi_lawyer_in_the_erin_brockovich_case_found_guilty_of_fraud#comments"> comment(s)</a> </p> </div> <div class="node-content"> Tom Girardi is one of the lawyers who shot to prominence after they got California utility PG&E to issue a shocking settlement in a case where it was alleged that hexavalent chromium was causing diseases in Hinckley, California.<br /><br />Where were the bodies? They didn't exist, according to science, and history has shown it to be a hoax. There are no more cases of cancer, disease, or anything else. Like President Biden <a href="https://www.science20.com/hank_campbell/louisiana_has_important_things_to_worry_about_lawyers_shouldnt_invent_a_cancer_alley_to_pile_on-255642" target="_blank">claiming a "cancer alley"</a> in, unsurprisingly, a state that votes Republican, it just exploited the average to get a jury to side against a company.<br /> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-16 views-row-even"> <div class="node teaser" id="node-257153"> <div class="node-meta"> <a href="/content/california_claims_100_days_of_100_renewable_energy_heres_the_truth"><img src="https://www.science20.comhttps://www.science20.com/files/images/renewable_energy_share_has_not_gone_up.jpg" alt="California Claims 100 Days Of 100% Renewable Energy - Here's The Truth" title="California Claims 100 Days Of 100% Renewable Energy - Here's The Truth" /></a> <h1 class="node-title" id="node-257153-title"><a href="/content/california_claims_100_days_of_100_renewable_energy_heres_the_truth">California Claims 100 Days Of 100% Renewable Energy - Here's The Truth</a></h1> <p class="node-other-info"> Aug 26 2024 | <a href="/content/california_claims_100_days_of_100_renewable_energy_heres_the_truth#comments"> comment(s)</a> </p> </div> <div class="node-content"> California activists are cheering <a href="https://electrek.co/2024/07/29/california-achieves-100-days-of-100-electricity-demand-met-by-renewables/" target="_blank">a new report </a>that claims for 100 days, the state was entirely powered by alternative energy and therefore solar and wind are ready to rule.<br /><br />This is a puzzle when California has America's most expensive electricity costs and people statewide are claiming about a 100% increase in electricity costs over the last 8 years and $500 bills last month.<br /><br />The details tell the three truths that paid activists for the solar and wind industry omit. <br /><br /><img src="https://www.science20.com/files/images/renewable_energy_share_has_not_gone_up.jpg" alt="" /> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-17 views-row-odd"> <div class="node teaser" id="node-257152"> <div class="node-meta"> <a href="/content/ford_just_walked_away_from_9_billion_to_not_have_to_make_more_electric_vehicles"><img src="https://www.science20.com/files/images/ford_electric_truck.png" alt="Ford Just Walked Away From $9 Billion To Not Have To Make More Electric Vehicles" title="Ford Just Walked Away From $9 Billion To Not Have To Make More Electric Vehicles" /></a> <h1 class="node-title" id="node-257152-title"><a href="/content/ford_just_walked_away_from_9_billion_to_not_have_to_make_more_electric_vehicles">Ford Just Walked Away From $9 Billion To Not Have To Make More Electric Vehicles</a></h1> <p class="node-other-info"> Aug 22 2024 | <a href="/content/ford_just_walked_away_from_9_billion_to_not_have_to_make_more_electric_vehicles#comments"> comment(s)</a> </p> </div> <div class="node-content"> American automobile companies have been dealing with government regulations for a hundred years so they know to go with the high-publicity political flow and then quietly fix the issues later.(1) During the housing bubble of 2008, Ford went to Congress and agreed car companies absolutely needed a bailout.<br /><br />Then they didn't take it while competitors did, and were suddenly stuck with caving in to government-enabled union demands to have janitors make $50 an hour while Ford stock took off. They didn't have bureaucrats wanting to sign off on every decision the way General Motors did.<br /> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-18 views-row-even"> <div class="node teaser" id="node-257151"> <div class="node-meta"> <a href="/content/dear_media_fertility_isnt_lower_american_women_are_just_having_fewer_babies"><img src="https://www.science20.com/files/images/cdc_birth_2023.png" alt="Dear Media: Fertility Isn't Lower, American Women Are Just Having Fewer Babies" title="Dear Media: Fertility Isn't Lower, American Women Are Just Having Fewer Babies" /></a> <h1 class="node-title" id="node-257151-title"><a href="/content/dear_media_fertility_isnt_lower_american_women_are_just_having_fewer_babies">Dear Media: Fertility Isn't Lower, American Women Are Just Having Fewer Babies</a></h1> <p class="node-other-info"> Aug 21 2024 | <a href="/content/dear_media_fertility_isnt_lower_american_women_are_just_having_fewer_babies#comments"> comment(s)</a> </p> </div> <div class="node-content"> Progressives are concerned that some US states have adopted abortion cut-off dates equal to those of France, which only raised it to 14 weeks in 2022. CDC shows American births are dropping so low that the Biden administration may need to start subsidizing the pro-life movement.<br /> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-19 views-row-odd"> <div class="node teaser" id="node-257150"> <div class="node-meta"> <a href="/content/20_years_of_german_alternative_energy_cost_them_500000000000_and_drove_consumers_costs_up"><img src="https://www.science20.com/files/images/german_nuclear_multiverse.jpg" alt="20 Years Of German Alternative Energy Cost Them $500,000,000,000 And Drove Consumers Costs Up" title="20 Years Of German Alternative Energy Cost Them $500,000,000,000 And Drove Consumers Costs Up" /></a> <h1 class="node-title" id="node-257150-title"><a href="/content/20_years_of_german_alternative_energy_cost_them_500000000000_and_drove_consumers_costs_up">20 Years Of German Alternative Energy Cost Them $500,000,000,000 And Drove Consumers Costs Up</a></h1> <p class="node-other-info"> Aug 21 2024 | <a href="/content/20_years_of_german_alternative_energy_cost_them_500000000000_and_drove_consumers_costs_up#comments"> comment(s)</a> </p> </div> <div class="node-content"> There is now enough of data related to Germany lurching to the anti-science left this decade, both in food and energy, that is is easy to see why other companies should stop making the same mistake.<br /><br />Solar and wind not only don't work, they can't work as long as old technology is subsidized. It prevents better technology from being developed because that is not where the easy government money is.<br /> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-20 views-row-even views-row-last"> <div class="node teaser" id="node-257149"> <div class="node-meta"> <a href="/content/china_is_about_to_dominate_the_us_and_france_in_actual_clean_energy"><img src="https://www.science20.comhttps://www.science20.com/files/images/nuclear_be_more_like_france.jpg" alt="China Is About To Dominate The US and France In Actual Clean Energy" title="China Is About To Dominate The US and France In Actual Clean Energy" /></a> <h1 class="node-title" id="node-257149-title"><a href="/content/china_is_about_to_dominate_the_us_and_france_in_actual_clean_energy">China Is About To Dominate The US and France In Actual Clean Energy</a></h1> <p class="node-other-info"> Aug 21 2024 | <a href="/content/china_is_about_to_dominate_the_us_and_france_in_actual_clean_energy#comments"> comment(s)</a> </p> </div> <div class="node-content"> American environmentalists and the solar and wind industries propped up by taxes on poor people love to talk about how much their business has increased.<br /><br />It certainly has. Mandates and subsidies will do that. What those cannot do is make a meaningful difference. The world has spent $4 trillion on solar and wind subsidies and conventional energy usage has only declined about 0.1%. 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