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Plenty Magazine’s Jessica A. Knoblauch is on a mission to rid the world of vinyl, and she won’t let facts get in her way, or science. Yesterday it was vinyl window shades, today it’s vinyl mattr… more →
Plenty of nonsense
Trevor Butterworth wrote 1 month ago: Plenty Magazine’s Jessica A. Knoblauch is on a mission to rid the world of vinyl, and she won’t … more →
Vinyl window shades are not going to make you fat
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Trevor Butterworth wrote 1 month ago: Increasingly, environmental journalism is taking on the color of naivity. Take this entry in Plenty … more →
How to Give Yourself Brain Damage from Drinking Water
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Trevor Butterworth wrote 2 months ago: The hysteria that environmental groups, journalists, and a handful of scientists have stirred up ove … more →
Pyrex-o-mania Continues on CBS Chicago
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Trevor Butterworth wrote 7 months ago: After scanning the Internet and finding 300 claims of Pyrex dishes “exploding” over the … more →
CBS Sweeps Week Shocker: Glass Can Break!
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Trevor Butterworth wrote 7 months ago: Chicago’s CBS affiliate has discovered the laws of physics, and the shocking news is that…um… … more →
Conventional Wisdom Busting: Social Networking Not a Haven for Sex Predators
Trevor Butterworth wrote 8 months ago: Participation in social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook is not exposing children to a … more →
Coffee and Miscarriage: Jitters or Junk?
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Trevor Butterworth wrote 8 months ago: Rebecca Goldin Ph.D The New York Times (and according to Google News, some 400 other news stories) t … more →
Toronto Star's Top 10 False Health Scares
Trevor Butterworth wrote 9 months ago: Trevor Butterworth The Toronto Star has published a list of the “Top 10 false health scares, … more →
The More Bad Data You See, The More Bad Data You'll See
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Trevor Butterworth wrote 9 months ago: Trevor Butterworth The media have trapped us in a feedback loop of doom and gloom preventing us from … more →
Media Overstating Phthalate Risk Say Doctors
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Trevor Butterworth wrote 9 months ago: Trevor Butterworth In the op-ed - “Stop Scaring Us” - for the Los Angeles Times, Henry I … more →
Harvard’s Inconvenient Data About Diet and Cancer
Trevor Butterworth wrote 11 months ago: Trevor Butterworth Harvard’s massive pooling project is challenging conventional wisdom about diet … more →
NYT Explains Percentages on Breast Cancer Alcohol Scare
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Trevor Butterworth wrote 11 months ago: Trevor Butterworth New study claimed a 30 percent increased risk, but what did this mean in terms of … more →
The Risks of Television
Trevor Butterworth wrote 11 months ago: Trevor Butterworth and Jenna Krall Sometimes it’s the actual set and not what you’re watching th … more →
The Risks of Lawn Mowing
Trevor Butterworth wrote 11 months ago: Trevor Butterworth and Jenna Krall What happens when you take a set of sharp blades and spin them at … more →
The Risks of Grilling
Trevor Butterworth wrote 11 months ago: Trevor Butterworth and Jenna Krall Summertime, and the grilling is easy - for most people, that is; … more →
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