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Comment NASA's fall from the Moon to peddling CAGW (Score 1) 188

by hostname on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @01:19PM (#40986315) Attached to: House Representatives Working On NASA Reform Bill

Perhaps with an extended budget NASA will no longer feel political pressure to peddle their snake oil CAGW hysteria. It's pretty sad that in a short 40+ years NASA went from moon landings to backing University research papers that speculate that we will all be destroyed by aliens because of CAGW!

Submission + - Widely used antibacterial chemical may impair muscle function (ucdavis.edu)

Submitted by daleallan on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @01:00PM

daleallan writes: Triclosan, which is widely used in consumer handsoaps, toothpaste, clothes, carpets and trash bags, impairs muscle function in animal studies, say researchers at UC Davis. It slows swimming in fish and reduces muscle strength in mice. It may even impair the ability of heart muscle cells to contract. The chemical is in everyone's home and pervasive in the environment, the lead researcher says. One million pounds of Triclosan is produced in the U.S. annually and it's found in waterways, fish, dolphins, human urine, blood and breast milk. The researchers say their findings "Call for a dramatic reduction in use. It's in my Colgate Total toothpaste, and in fact, preventing gingivitis is the only use that may be worthwhile, although this makes me think twice about continuing to brush with it.

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