Wow – I never thought I would say this, but here is a great piece in Townhall about e-cigarettes. Last week, the House of Representatives approved a bill that authorizes the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate tobacco products. Lest anyone think that cigarettes will be safer as a result, the bill prohibits manufacturers […]
Another idiotic idea from the religious right is debunked yet again: Teenagers who pledge to remain virgins until marriage are just as likely to have premarital sex as those who do not promise abstinence and are significantly less likely to use condoms and other forms of birth control when they do, according to a study […]
A new study has estimated the Iraqi death toll at 655,000 since the start of the invasion. This study was conducted using a new method: Researchers used household interviews rather than body counts to estimate how many more Iraqis had died because of the war than used to die annually in peacetime. “We estimate that […]