Category Archives: She Blinded Me With Science

So much for Agent Orange being “harmless”!

Posted on July 29, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Scientists have long been saying otherwise, and here’s one more study to prove it… New Zealand troops who served in the Vietnam War suffered significant genetic damage from exposure to Agent Orange, a study suggests. The chemical was used by … Continue reading →

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So much for the “miracle” of DDT!

Posted on July 5, 2006 by Sabina Becker

There are some ‘tards in this world who want to bring back DDT–to control malarial mosquitoes. I have just one question for them: Were you breast-fed? Children exposed to the pesticide DDT while in the womb experience development problems, researchers … Continue reading →

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Evil wicked Cuba sets example again (twice!)

Posted on July 3, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Don’t you hate it when things like this happen? Uruguay’s Emergency Plan (PANES) Coordinator, Bertha Sanseverino, announced that the country will introduce Cuba’s Literacy Plan, currently applied in many parts of the world. “Just as Venezuela is supporting us in … Continue reading →

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Another Liberal not worthy of the name

Posted on June 29, 2006 by Sabina Becker

You can always tell who the cynical power-jockeys are up here in the Great North. They gravitate to the party most likely to get them elected, even when they have little or nothing in common with the values implicit in … Continue reading →

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But on the bright side, organ donations are up…

Posted on June 21, 2006 by Sabina Becker

A pathologist friend-of-friends often refers to motorcycles as “donorcycles”. See if you can tell me why after reading this. Motorcycle fatalities involving riders without helmets have soared in the nearly six years since Gov. Jeb Bush repealed the state’s mandatory … Continue reading →

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More proof that Frankenfoods suck shit

Posted on June 17, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Yes, those pesky scientists have found some more eye-bugging evidence that Monsanto is lying through its teeth to us. And some of them are from Venezuela! Two research teams in England and Venezuela have discovered something alarming about the new … Continue reading →

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Oh, my virgin eyes!!!

Posted on May 20, 2006 by Sabina Becker

I swear…I’ll never look at Dr. David Suzuki the same way again:

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Yes, it’s time to bomb Brazil!

Posted on May 7, 2006 by Sabina Becker

After all, they’ve gone “nucular”! Brazil has joined the select group of countries with the capability of enriching uranium as a means of generating energy. A new centrifuge facility was formally opened on Friday at the Resende nuclear plant in … Continue reading →

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Cool beans? You’re damn (not) tootin’!

Posted on April 25, 2006 by Sabina Becker

And look where they were developed! A Venezuelan team says fermenting beans with certain friendly bacteria can cut the amount of wind-causing compounds, and boost beans’ nutritional value. The research appears in the Journal of the Science of Food and … Continue reading →

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Wolfowitz Bank: yet another BushCo fuck-up

Posted on April 25, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Oh, the ignominy of seeing yet another imperial money machine get trashed! The World Bank has been accused of publishing false accounts and wasting money on ineffective medicines in its malaria treatment programme. A Lancet paper claims the bank faked … Continue reading →

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