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A selection of 'Reason' magazine's most incisive articles on population, pollution, resource depletion, biodiversity, energy, climate change, and the ideological environmentalists' penchant for peddling doom.

(Archived document, may contain errors) The Conservative As Environmentalist

Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are organisms that have been modified in a laboratory in order to produce a specific result. While on the surface it appears that GMOs are 100 percent positive, they have been surrounded by controversy for decades.

We all have a substance circulating in our blood that appears to have great importance for our long-term health outcomes and life expectancy. Unfortunately, most people have never heard about it and little attention is paid to it.

Biochemist Arlene Blum discusses her ongoing battle against harmful chemicals and her work to arm scientists with better communication skills.

Morley Robbins, MBA, CHC,1 founder of the Magnesium Advocacy Group and best known as the Magnesium Man, has also written a book called "Cu-RE Your Fatigue: The Root Cause and How to Fix It on Your Own." In this book, he goes well beyond magnesium...

If you want to murder a child of less than a year old using the most toxic substance on earth, you don’t have to go to a deep-web site that Team America World Police hasn’t yet ruined to buy your poison. You can do it with an easily available natural product that has loads of health benefit...

DeSmog Background According to its agency profile at O’Dwyers, “APCO Worldwide is a global communications consultancy” with clients including “large multinational companies, trade associations, governments, NGOs and educational institutions” and has offices in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. APCO started in 1984 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Arnold & Porter, a law firm that initially worked closely with Philip Morris tobacco and went on to service a wider range of...

The voracious appetites of pests put plants under constant stress. They have to fight just to stay alive. And fight they do. Far from being passive victims, plants have evolved potent defenses: chemical compounds that serve as toxins, signal an escalating attack, and solicit help from unlikely allies. 1 In some cases plants lure attackers into a carefully set trap. An example: plants in the Brassicaceae family (including broccoli, cabbage and mustard) store seemingly harmless compounds known a...

Signs of Healthy Aging Detected in Ergothioneine Telomere Study by Iswarya on  December 13, 2020 at 12:11 AM Journal of Dietary Supplements. The in vitro study is the first time ergothioneine has been studied for its effect on telomere length. Blue California provided its ErgoActive ergothioneine, which is produced by a proprietary fermentation process. "Our results suggest that ergothioneine as part of a healthy diet could potentially mitigate the negative effects of oxidati...