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Science, Science Fiction, and Political Science

 The term Science (from Latin scientia, meaning “knowledge”)  is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations…

Why Do We Grow All This Corn?

As the combines roll across millions of acres of farmland in the US this time of year, hundreds…

Is Free Food a Right?

 The United States was founded on the principle that every citizen had certain “unalienable” rights. Over the course…

Teaching Consumers About Risk

Anyone who works in or around agriculture knows all too well that farming is a risky business.  Yet…

The Sky is Falling, Yet Again

Last summer as the temperatures soared and crops wilted in the fields across much of the nation, the…

Going to War for Big Oil, Again

Once again, the US is saber-rattling in the Persian Gulf. Administration officials are spoon feeding the media with…

For Consumers, Seeing is Believing

 The old adage states “seeing is believing.” For today’s skeptical, media-overwhelmed consumer, this is certainly true.  There was…
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