Homeowners in Britain must make green "improvements" in their homes, or face penalties. Draconian government plans to transform England into the world’s first “green economy" mean government intrudes even more deeply into the citizens’ already over-regulated lives. Are you "green" enough yet? For our English readers with home remodeling in Read more…
BAN PEOPLE! Global warming got you heated up? Worried about the long-term dangers of chemical residues from plastics, farting cows, industrial pollution, cigarette butts on sidewalks, and vulgar t-shirts sold to teens at the local mall? Fretting over the old cholesterol count? Maybe your own middle age wrinkles haunt your Read more…
Want to protect children from dangerous or potentially dangerous chemicals? For starters, keep them away from traffic emissions. That means no living in the city, especially in high-traffic areas. This is a self-evident point that the evangelists of the “de-normalization” brigade will never be tempted to consider, at least out Read more…
The white-collar criminals responsible for the fraud-based antismoking policy in Canada are now in a tizzy because of a rampant contraband problem – and, once again, smokers are blamed for what government and the anti-tobacco zealots have created. It’s not as if they hadn’t learned back in the ‘90s that Read more…
The thesis is that the addicted smoker has to be helped even against his will. The story of the dangers of passive smoking has the function to reduce the tolerance of smokers. From the same reason it is claimed that the smoker damages society financially. Again and again the message Read more…
<p>With England’s newly enacted ban on smoking nearly everywhere comes the predictable campaigns that accompany prohibition. A particularly nasty, yet laughably childish, secondhand smoke “public announcement” caught the eye of John Luik and provides fodder for a mature discussion of managing risk.</p>
<p>PubWatch is an organized scheme in the UK, undertaken as a volunteer effort among pub owners in a given area and with the cooperation of the police, to more effectively deal with troublemakers who frequent British pubs.</p>
This “health news” tidbit, in which we’re told that a new urine test proves that obese people are not actually reliable reporters about what they eat, deserves comment for a couple of reasons. For starters, it illustrates a major shortcoming of many studies about health and lifestyle (and other matters Read more…
“The word ‘accident’ is to be banned from the new edition of Britain’s Highway Code, which is published by the UK Department of Transport. Instead the words ‘collision’, ‘crash’ or ‘incident’ will be used to describe events that once were known as accidents. This adoption of new terms for everyday Read more…
There are those who want marijuana legalized and those who don’t – that’s an old story. As we are anti-prohibition, you can imagine our stand. Today, the war for or against marijuana is fought with trash science salvos – questionnaire-based epidemiological studies, where unverifiable and impossible-to-quantify responses are conjured into Read more…