"The colonists learned how to minimize the chances of enemy ambush, sometimes employed a hit-and-run style of fighting, often utilised a mobile strategy, and not infrequently adopted terror tactics that included torture, killing women, children and the elderly, the destruction of Indian villages and food supplies….warfare in the colonies came to be associated with a …
The Guardian (September 21st) reports that twice as many girls as boys are being born in some Arctic villages because of high levels of man-made chemicals that mimic human hormones. The chemicals are carried in in the mother’s bloodstream through the placenta to the feotus, switching hormones to create girls. These chemicals are accumulating in …
A Newsweek survey showed that creationism, or a variant thereof, was the belief of 48% of Americans. Only 13% chose evolution as their explanation for human development. 61% of all Americans think that Genesis is literally true, rather than a (rather fetching, if simple) explanation put forward by primitive and ignorant people for the creation …
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"Common sense tells us, " says Madeleine Bunting in The Guardian," that if the planet’s resources are being grossly depleted, there are just too many of us around." Yet none of the environmental lobbying groups will mention this obvious fact "because of the unpleasant associations it brings with it." If we admitted there were just …
Soaring levels of obesity in the Western world are expected to trigger an infertility crisis among women, according the The Guardian (September 21st, 2007). It seems that one in fifteen women have polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) (Ah! another syndrome – Ed.), an excess of male hormones that cause cysts to grow on the ovaries, and …
