The Credible Hulk

Pro-science skeptical activist blogger, musician, and polymath promoting science education, and smashing pseudoscience and denialism

Mathematics

A practical Introduction to Vectors

The mathematical concept of a “vector” is ubiquitous in the realms of physics, engineering and applied mathematics. Typically, the concept is first introduced (usually in a first semester physics course or perhaps a trigonometry or calculus course) as a quantity Read more…

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By Credible Hulk, 10 yearsJuly 31, 2015 ago
Genetic Engineering and Agricultural Science

Genetically Engineered crops and seed saving myths.

By the time genetically engineered seeds came along, the practice of buying new seeds every year had been common place for more than half a century. There were and are a few reasons for this: Firstly, by the 1930s, commercial Read more…

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By Credible Hulk, 10 yearsJuly 8, 2015 ago
Cancer

10 Reasons Why Hidden Cancer Cure Conspiracy Theories Fail.

Extremely popular on Facebook and other social media is the idea that a cure for cancer has been found but is being suppressed.  The reason given for the suppression is universally the same.  The premise is that companies stand to Read more…

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By Credible Hulk, 10 yearsJuly 2, 2015 ago
Chemophobia

About those harsher herbicides that glyphosate helped replace:

One of the common criticisms of commercially available Genetically Engineered (GE) seeds is the idea that they have led to an increase in pesticide use. In actuality, it turns out that they’ve corresponded to a decrease in total pesticide use, but Read more…

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By Credible Hulk, 10 yearsJune 2, 2015 ago
Genetic Engineering and Agricultural Science

Glyphosate toxicity: Looking past the hyperbole, and sorting through the facts. By Credible Hulk

You may at some point have heard people speak of glyphosate as being “less toxic than caffeine or table salt.” What they’re referring to when they say that is what we call its LD50, which a standard way of quantifying Read more…

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By Credible Hulk, 10 yearsJune 2, 2015 ago
Common Pseudoscience Arguments

Blowing smoke: Annihilating fallacious comparisons of biotech scientists to tobacco company lobbyists.

Bringing up pictures of doctors smoking cigarettes is a common tactic used by anti-GMO activists and other critics of “mainstream” science to cast doubt and mistrust on matters of scientific consensus by implying that a world wide scientific consensus can Read more…

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By Credible Hulk, 10 yearsMay 14, 2015 ago
Allergens

Allergic to Bullshit: Why Genetically Engineered foods do not present a unique allergen threat. By Credible Hulk

One question that comes up a lot with regards to the safety of genetically engineered crops is whether or not they might produce allergens. The concern is that, by moving genetic material from one organism to another, an allergen might Read more…

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By Credible Hulk, 10 yearsMay 12, 2015 ago
Organic Food

Is Organic food really more nutritious? An analysis of a 343 study meta-analysis published in the BJN. By Credible Hulk.

In July of 2014, the British Journal of Nutrition published a 343 study meta-analysis which has been used as justification for concluding that organic foods are more nutritious than their conventionally grown counterparts. In a nutshell, its most relevant claims Read more…

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By Credible Hulk, 10 yearsMay 12, 2015 ago
Modern Physics

The Standard Model of Particle Physics: A Conceptual Introduction. By Credible Hulk (StASM admin): Part IV: Hadrons

In part I, we discussed the fundamental forces in physics and the dual nature of particles and fields. We also talked about how the elementary particles of the Standard Model are divided into fermions and bosons. In part II, we Read more…

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By Credible Hulk, 10 yearsMay 12, 2015 ago
Modern Physics

The Standard Model of Particle Physics: A Conceptual Introduction. By The Credible Hulk (StASM Admin): Part III: Bosons

In part I, we discussed the fundamental forces in physics and the dual nature of particles and fields. We also talked about how the elementary particles of the Standard Model are divided into fermions and bosons. In part II, we Read more…

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By Credible Hulk, 10 yearsMay 12, 2015 ago

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