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We recently wrote about how the administration is forcing climate scientists to use fake science to “explain” global warming. Now it turns out that states like Florida will not even have access to the REAL science they do. This is particularly important in Florida, which is especially vulnerable to hurricanes, which have increased due to warmer ocean temperatures.
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A new treatment may be able to REVERSE Mad Cow Disease in humans. It works in mice.

Blocking the production of certain proteins in the brains of diseased mice completely reverses the memory loss caused by Mad Cow. Will it do the same thing for humans? The human form of Mad Cow is called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD).

Animals and humans both produce normal prion proteins in our nervous systems. Mad Cow and vCJD produce abnormal, “folded” prions that disrupt the functioning of our normal prions. The resulting brain damage leads to loss of coordination, dementia and eventually to death.
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The February 2nd report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that human activities, in the form of greenhouse gas emissions, are the cause of global warming. Some scientists think we only have a decade left to try to fix the problem. Meanwhile, major oil companies are trying desperately to debunk the study.

CNN reports that an Exxon-Mobil think tank sent letters to scientists offering them $10,000 if they would criticize the findings of the new UN study. Is this the type of “think tank” that will be attached to President Bush’s proposed $500 billion presidential library?
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