Compare the energy densities of gasoline and fuel oil to anything else. We don't use it because Big Oil suppressed alternatives, but because there is no alternative that produces more energy.

They didn't need to spend a dime getting us to use the fuel with the highest energy density we have found. The modern world would not exist without it. It is how we became able to travel hundreds of miles in a matter of hours instead of days.

You have the right to communicate, not to have someone else furnish you with the means to do so remotely. There's no right to compel.

I didn't know that, but it is clearly what the summary says.

No, it doesn't. I suspect a lack of sincerity in the criticism.

That'll be good for everyone. The more information there is in the market, the better it works.

And it's in the interests of the (at least) equally powerful developers, realtors, and home buyers to have new homes built.

The researchers are clearly suggesting a causal direction, but sticky plaque trapping junk is an obvious and reasonable counter-explanation. Especially given that people have had strokes since well before plastic was invented. They're even postulating a more complex theory of cause, where the plastics are causing changes to genetic expression, when "things stick to sticky things" is at least as likely and far simpler.

Also, I'm suspicious of people who run to the media before presenting their research to the scientific community.

Thanks for politicizing the apolitical.

I couldn't help but notice there was nothing to indicate the causal arrow points the way they suggest it does. If people didn't already have strokes caused by plaque buildup, that would indicate something. Since they do, maybe the plaque is trapping microplastic rather than microplastic being the cause of anything.

Since when?

Watch out for barbarians!

Is the CCP allowing US based charities to give money to (former?) political prisoners? Do they actually get to keep it?

Would any country allow foreign charities to give money to people they had imprisoned?

Helping Chinese dissidents sounds like a good idea, but how can it work?

Regulation is not free. Regulators are expensive, and they put expenses on the regulated entities. If the problem the regulation is meant to address is not occurring, then having it is a stupid way to waste everyone's time and money.

That actually makes perfect sense. Net Neutrality is not well defined and is intended to correct a problem that doesn't appear to exist. Fighting against it is the right thing to do generally and specifically for his company as it would have to bear a regulatory burden because of a problem that doesn't exist. You'd probably be annoyed if you had to pay an annual fee to file paperwork stating that you aren't robbing your neighbors when none of them has ever been robbed.