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Hundreds More Scientists Have Found the 1,500-Year Climate Cycle

Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C., March 3, 2008:  The following list includes more than 400 additional qualified scientists, with their home institutions, and the peer-reviewed studies they have published in professional journals, which reveal evidence of the moderate 1,500-year Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles. … Continue reading

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Great Rivers White Paper

Download Report (PDF) The great river valleys have always been the key cradles of civilization, and the great river valleys may always be at the heart of human societies. The great river valleys had the world’s richest hunting grounds. They … Continue reading

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Bjorn Lomborg Responds to Scientific American Critics

Download PDF As I write these words Scientific American has as yet not given me a chance to put my side of the argument before their readers. The four critiques and accompanying editorial will be the only statement that readers … Continue reading

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Rachel Carson Syndrome: Jumping to Pesticide Conclusions in the Global Frog Crisis

Download PDF A devastating and detailed review of four highly publicized case studies showing the deep anti-pesticide bias of ecologists. The report asks why ecologists continually chase chemical phantoms despite the scientific evidence and when ecology will become a science … Continue reading

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Response to PimentelResponse to Pimentel response which was not published in Science

Dr. David Pimentel’s response to our letter in Science(2005, vol. 307:1410-1411) misconstrues some of our points and is simply wrong in other areas. First, Pimentel incorrectly claims that we equated herbicide tolerant crops (HT) with no-till cultivation systems. We clearly … Continue reading

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Hogs and Water Quality: Review Fails to Find Any Hog Impact

Download PDF This extensive review of state-collected water quality data from North Carolina, conducted by Dr. Dwayne R. Edwards from the University of Kentucky, was sponsored by Frontline Farmers, Inc., a group of North Carolina hog farmers. We are honored … Continue reading

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North Carolina Hog Farming & Water Quality: Time Series Analysis Fails to Reveal Significant Impacts

Download PDF The data discussed in this report indicate that nutrient levels in the Black and Northeast Cape Fear watersheds are elevated above levels expected prior to farming and livestock. However, these data also indicate that the impacts from intensive … Continue reading

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Wages of Fear: The Costs to Society of Attacks on the Products of Human Ingenuity

Download PDF Page 12 of this Lexington Institute publication features “Bogus Health Scares & the Costs to Society: GM Foods,” by Alex Avery. It is especially relevant in the context of today’s growing famine situation in southern Africa.

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“Natural” and Organic Foods 8 Times More Likely to Have Safety and Recall Problems

Download PDF Organic and “all natural” products are revealed to be 8 times more likely to be recalled for safety related problems than conventional products, according to U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Health Canada records.

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The Most Sustainable Farming In History Gives The World Its Finest Food Choices

Download PDF A group of academics from Johns Hopkins University says the world should abandon the high-yield science-based agriculture that has doubled the world’s food supply in 50 years. However, as their paper makes clear, the authors have little expertise … Continue reading

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