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<title><![CDATA[Alex Berezow - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/21726.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Alex Berezow]]></description><category domain="21726">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Top Junk Science and Bogus Health Claims Debunked in 2019]]></title>
							<link>https://www.acsh.org/news/2019/12/26/top-10-junk-science-and-bogus-health-claims-acsh-debunked-2019-14475</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Berezow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As is the case every year, 2019 was full of junk science, bogus health claims, misinformation, and outright lies. We debunked scores of them this year, but the following list is what we consider the top 10.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Humanities Enrollment Is in Free Fall]]></title>
							<link>https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/07/31/humanities-enrollment-free-fall-13243</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Berezow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The humanities are in big trouble. That's the conclusion drawn by Benjamin Schmidt, an Assistant Professor of History at Northeastern University. He has the data to back it up.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[After 14 Years, I've Had It With Seattle]]></title>
							<link>https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/after-14-years-ive-had-it-im-leaving-seattle/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Berezow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Seattle has become a place that is hostile to the middle class.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hey, CNN, There's Nothing Cool About Socialism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/02/21/cnn-thinks-socialism-cool-my-grandparents-ussr-would-disagree/349830002/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Berezow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[My grandmother grew up in Ukraine, which was then a part of the USSR '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. After waking each morning, she checked to see if any of her family members died during the night. Many of her compatriots were already dead because Joseph Stalin, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dear CNN, There's Nothing Cool About Socialism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/02/21/cnn-thinks-socialism-cool-my-grandparents-ussr-would-disagree/349830002/#431</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Berezow</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Chemical Attack on U.S. Diplomats in Cuba?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/09/29/what-caused-hearing-loss-u-s-diplomats-health-mystery-alex-berezow-jamie-wells-column/698483001/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Berezow</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Al Gore: Still Demented After All These Years]]></title>
							<link>http://acsh.org/news/2017/02/16/al-gore-still-demented-after-all-these-years-10874</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Berezow</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Every night on the television news now is like a nature hike through the Book of Revelation," lamented Al Gore in his opening remarks for the Climate &amp;'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Health Meeting. After all these years, he still has a demented penchant for apocalyptic exaggeration.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fracking Protestors Are the Real Putin Puppets]]></title>
							<link>http://acsh.org/news/2017/01/09/fracking-protesters-are-putin-puppets-10707</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Berezow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The much anticipated intelligence report which concluded'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' that Russia tried to influence the recent presidential election had another startling, yet widely ignored, conclusion: The Russian government promotes anti-fracking propaganda in the United States.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Paul Krugman Now Has Nobel Disease]]></title>
							<link>http://acsh.org/news/2016/12/18/paul-krugman-now-has-nobel-disease-10609</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Berezow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is a somewhat tongue-in-cheek, though still quite real, phenomenon known as "Nobel Disease." For some reason, many people who have won a Nobel Prize'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' went'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' on to become infamous for saying and believing incredibly stupid things, some of which are quite'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' delusional.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. on Verge of Multi-Party System?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/12/24/us_on_verge_of_multi-party_system_129115.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Berezow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The surging popularity of Ted Cruz and the persistent support for Bernie Sanders illustrate that both the Republican and Democratic parties are facing an existential crisis. Indeed, both parties may be headed for a divorce, ushering in a new era of multi-party politics.
The Republican...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Animal Rights Activists Behave Like Stalkers]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2015/10/animal_rights_activists_behave_like_stalkers.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Berezow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every person and organization needs a reality check. It is healthy and vital to seriously consider the opinions of those with whom we disagree. For individuals, this prevents arrogance and promotes...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Primordial Soup Was Edible]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearscience.com/journal_club/2015/10/05/the_primordial_soup_was_edible_109402.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Berezow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Back in 2005, when I was a first-year microbiology graduate student, I enrolled in a course on bacterial physiology. One of our guest lecturers, Dr. Franklin Harold, was an esteemed researcher in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Punish and Reform the EPA]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2015/08/punish_and_reform_the_epa.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Berezow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The accidental spill of toxic wastewater into Colorado'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Animas River is an ironic case study: The very organization meant to protect Americans from environmental catastrophes was responsible for perpetrating it. How should the Environmental Protection Agency be held accountable?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[&quot;Pro-Science&quot; Dems Reject Biotechnology]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2015/08/pro-science_democrats_reject_biotechnology.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Berezow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Imagine if Congress voted on whether or not to teach evolution and climate change in school. And imagine that 73% of Republicans voted against it. The backlash would be easy to predict: The national media, and science journalists in particular, would spend a week making somber...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Slate's Science Page Has Gone Crazy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2015/05/slates_science_page_has_gone_crazy.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Berezow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Something has happened at Slate. Until relatively recently, Slate's science page produced so much amazingly good content that we were tempted to link to them multiple times per day. In our 2013 list of the Top 10 Science News Sites, we awarded them an honorable mention.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[NYT Should Stop Writing About Science]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2015/03/maybe_nyt_should_stop_writing_about_science.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Berezow</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Smartest Person Who Ever Lived]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2015/01/the_smartest_person_to_have_ever_lived.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Berezow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Who was the smartest person to ever live? There are certainly many worthy contenders. Today, the very name of "Einstein" is synonymous with genius. Others may suggest Stephen Hawking. Those who appreciate literature and music may proffer William Shakespeare or Ludwig van Beethoven....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Win. Earth Will Survive]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/11/phil_plaits_terrible_horrible_no_good_very_bad_day.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Berezow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Apocalypse is here.Science writer Phil Plait's worst nightmare came true. The Republicans won control of the U.S. Senate. What can we expect to happen? In Plait's words, the Republicans will "put a cohort of science-deniers [sic] into positions of authority," which "quite literally...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[CDC Lost Its Ebola Gamble]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/10/23/cdc-ebola-gamble-public-confidence-trust-truth-not-clueless-czar-column/17800077/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Berezow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Ebola situation is testing the world's best infectious disease team, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), at its ability to perform crisis management. While the immediate threat in the United States appears to be receding, it is far from clear that we're up to facing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Political Correctness: A Disease With No Cure]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/07/an_outbreak_of_political_correctness_in_science_media.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Berezow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The American media is widely perceived to lean to the Left. Though most journalists won't openly admit the fact, it is indisputably true. As reported in the Washington Post, a 2014 study showed that among journalists Democrats outnumber Republicans by four to one. (The exact numbers...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Lies Whole Foods Tells]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/06/the_lies_that_whole_foods_tells_108701.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Berezow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The organic food market is estimated at $63 billion globally, with more than half of those sales occuring in the United States. (If "natural products" are included, the organic market is $290 billion in the U.S. alone.) It's no wonder, then, why Wal-Mart and other mainstream retailers...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Politicians Throw Science Under the Bus]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/01/02/politicians-science-elections-scientific-literacy-column/4294473/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Berezow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The latest international exams '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';' which show that students from the U.S. rank 21st and 26th in science and math, respectively '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';' once again confirm a pattern that emerged in 1964 with the First International Mathematics Study: Compared with their counterparts abroad, American kids are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will China's Moon Landing Spur U.S. into Action?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearworld.com/blog/2013/12/will_chinas_moon_landing_spur_us_to_action_110151.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Berezow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[China has officially joined the "Moon Landing Club," which, until Saturday, was the exclusive domain of the United States and the former Soviet Union. China's rover will now putter around, doing what such missions are typically designed to do: taking lots of pictures and analyzing lunar...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Is a Socialist Allowed to Teach Economics?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2013/11/why_is_a_socialist_allowed_to_teach_economics.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Berezow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We don't cover economics regularly because it is not traditionally considered science. Furthermore, the field too often generates research and commentary that employs more voodoo than a witch doctor. It is largely for these reasons that economics is often referred to as the "dismal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Twisted History of Science &amp; Religion]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2013/10/21/twisted_history_jerry_coyne_on_science__religion_106729.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Berezow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jerry Coyne is an esteemed evolutionary biologist. But, together with the other New Atheists, he vehemently berates religion in a way that can detract from his important work of explaining evolution to the layperson.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' In his latest post on the topic, he promotes the false belief that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Richard Dawkins Is Wrong About Religion]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2013/09/richard-dawkins-is-wrong-about-religion.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Berezow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thanks to his new autobiography, Richard Dawkins is making the media rounds again. Recently, he appeared on the Michael Medved Show. The host, who is a friend of mine, is also an adherent of Orthodox Judaism, so perhaps because of this Mr. Dawkins was more well-behaved than usual.During...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[&quot;Dr. No&quot; a Good Steward for Our Money]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/08/11/coburn-national-science-foundation-republicans-column/2641201/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Berezow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Late last month, the National Science Foundation decided to stop funding new political science grants through the end of 2013. Predictably, political scientists are outraged. But so are hard science researchers.The anger is misplaced. The temporary move is a sign that Congress is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Climate Change Isn't World's Biggest Problem]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2013/07/08/climate_change_isnt_worlds_biggest_problem_106585.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Berezow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s particularly trendy among politicians and members of the media to be worried about climate change. When President Obama recently spoke before a crowd in Berlin, he said that climate change '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'is the global threat of our time.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'But that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not true. Just a cursory...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Court's DNA Decision Not Based on Biology]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2013/06/19/courts_gene_patent_decision_not_based_on_biology_106565.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Berezow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Supreme Court, in a unanimous 9-0 decision, determined that biotechnology companies are not allowed to patent genes. This is a step in the right direction, but the Court has not gone far enough.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Death of Small Town America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearscience.com/journal_club/2013/06/10/murphysboro__the_death_of_small_town_america_106556.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Berezow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On March 18, 1925, the deadliest tornado in U.S. history -- the Tri-State Tornado -- destroyed my hometown of Murphysboro, Illinois. Though it overestimated the final death toll, the front page of the Chicago Herald-Examiner said it all: "In the twinkling of an eye, Murphysboro was no...]]></description>
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