The government wants to allow chemical companies to test pesticides on people. However, the Natural Resources Defense Council calls this an “appalling suggestion.”

Maggie Fox writes in Reuters that for the last 6 years, the EPA has allowed no human testing, but chemical manufacturers want to overturn the EPA ban because they say the new standards for pesticides are based on the worst possible effects they could have on lab animals and the best way to prove their products are safe is to start testing them on people. Some companies have started paying volunteers to eat or drink pesticides and other chemicals.
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The authors of the secret Pentagon global warming report now say they were only reporting a “worst case” scenario. Futurologist Peter Schwartz says that “unlikely though such events are, such studies are valuable?as valuable as if, say, someone in the 1990s had investigated the highly unlikely looking possibility that someone would try to destroy the World Trade Center by flying two airplanes into it.”
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Scientists are discovering that there are representations all over the Earth that accurately depict the positions of the stars in the sky, as they looked at the time when these buildings and earthworks were created.

Archeologists didn’t understand why the three pyramids at Giza in Egypt weren’t in a straight row, until they realized they mimicked the arrangement of the stars in what we call “Orion?s belt,” with the middle star slightly out of alignment compared to the other two.
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It’s almost inevitable that the Asian bird flu virus will eventually mutate into a form that humans can pass to one another. When that happens, it will spread rapidly around the world, just as SARS did. So we need to know: Just how dangerous is bird flu to humans?
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