Boo-hoo: GM coffee crop vandalised

Gosh, get out yer cryin' hankies: a genetically modified crop was cut down by "vandals" (read: environmental activists) before it could be shown what environmental harm could come of planting it. Special to GMO scintists: it's called horizontal gene transfer, and don't tell us it won't be years before we actually know anything about the environmental harm of these articial species... those f-ing artificial genetic constructs could be everywhere before you get around to testing for all the contamination that has taken place ... for that reason alone, your GM crops deserve to be shut down. The environment is under too great a strain already to be jumping on the fault line ...

Plastics Pollution Update

...Featuring the demasculinization index, the "ano-genital distance."

Pesticides = Parkinson's

No real surprises here; just gratified that science is finally amassing data on the fact that poison can kill you ... We're eating organic food here at Gonzo Science HQ ...

Female spiders who eat their mates BEFORE sex

The temptation to be sexist here is almost irresistable.

New Health Concerns About Eating GMO Food

...which we are all already doing. Monsanto trying to keep this new study under wraps, in a move which continues to build their reputation as the most irresponsible company on the fucking planet. Force feeding the world poison for profit: a victory for free-market capitalism.

Rumors of ghastly conspiracy in Iraq

Another link to dailykos.com. Apparently there is a rumor spreading in Iraq that Americans are detaining Iraqi drivers, secretly wiring their cars with explosives, and then telling them they have to drive quickly to a given police station to get their licenses back, whereupon they are detonated as "suicide bombers." The rumor is of course just as likely to be an insurgency psy-ops operation, in which case whoever thought of it probably got a promotion.

How science is diluted by lobbyists

Link is to a page at dailykos.com, one of our favorite political weblogs. It is about a recent story in Scientific American and the meat of it is: corporations attack any proposed safety standard.

World's largest earthquake: Connections to world of wierd science

Link is to a CNN story about how the scientists are flabbergasted. That's a good reason to think twice about what we know, and what we don't know. What are the alternative theories that bear upon this quake?

Exploded Planet Hypothesis: These theorists are probably sweating now.
Expanded Earth Hypothesis: Thumbs up from them, dovetails with their theory.
Velikovskians: Their case is weakened by the fact that large-scale disasters do not always come from space.

Look for expansion upon these ideas in the Gonzo Science column coming out next Thursday in the Reader Weekly of Duluth, MN.

Another cell phone cancer risk study

Cancer/tumor risk from cell phones shown AGAIN.

Gonzo Science asks: How many dead microbiologists make a pattern?

Interesting Model of Social Conformity

Interesting mathematical model based on magnetism predicts crowd behaviour.

Latest Nuke Accident

For those of you following such things.

Recent Bigfoot Video Said to be Blurry. Damn.

It sounds like this is another video that will fail to be conclusive. Ah well.

Mad Cow Coverup Case Continues to Unfold

Short version: economic concerns trump public safety.