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Have you ever walked outside during the height of allergy season and nearly sneezed your head off with a rapid-fire series of "Achoos"? If you're like most, the answer is yes, and while these sneezing fits are both annoying and embarrassing at times, there's a scientific reason for why you sometimes have to sneeze in quick succession. First, what the heck causes a sneeze in the first place, and what happens inside your body when one sneaks up on you? Well, sneezing is caused by a number of things, from dust and illness, to emotional responses and even sunlight, though...

ICYMI, here’s a chart from a recent post by my good friend Mathew Crawford. It basically shows, the more you vaccinate, the more cases and deaths you get.Critics would argue, “it’s confounded! more elderly are vaccinated.” But the same critics cannot show us this is false. They can only do “hand-waving” arguments that it must be wrong. Not very convincing.But to be fair, we can’t cite this as definitive proof either that the vaccines are unsafe.Governments won’t release the data to show vaccinations are safe. I wonder why?We actually agree with the critics that it is confounded but here’s why:...

If Bernie Sanders were an MLB general manager, he would probably be the type who chases bargain players rather than signing free agents to mega contracts. The presidential contender posted a video on his Twitter account Saturday showing him at a campaign stop talking about raising pay for school teachers. And he used baseball salaries to make his point. "If we are a nation that can provide contracts to baseball players for hundreds of millions of dollars, don't tell me we cannot pay teachers in this country the kinds of wages and salaries they deserve," Sanders said.