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Obesity impacts memory & concentration, providing an alternative explanation to harm claimed from a toxic exposure
Posted on 19 Sep 2011 by Thomas H. Clarke, Jr.

Prior posts have noted that the key to toxic torts is causation. Prior posts have also noted some potential alternative factors that should be considered when various types of harm are alleged that supposedly result from a toxic tort. Now, obesity may... Read More

Obesity impacts memory & concentration, providing an alternative explanation to harm claimed from a toxic exposure
Posted on 19 Sep 2011 by Thomas H. Clarke, Jr.

Prior posts have noted that the key to toxic torts is causation. Prior posts have also noted some potential alternative factors that should be considered when various types of harm are alleged that supposedly result from a toxic tort. Now, obesity may... Read More

Even toxics can act as a generic selection factor in the environment
Posted on 22 Feb 2011 by Thomas H. Clarke, Jr.

One of the themes of this blog has been that virtually anything present in the environment can act as a selection factor influencing the course of evolution. A recent study on fish and PCB's and dioxins illustrates this point. Unfortunately for humans... Read More

What killed off much of the explosion of life following the Cambrian "explosion"?
Posted on 5 Feb 2011 by Thomas H. Clarke, Jr.

Prior posts have discussed the Cambrian explosion, and noted the evidence suggesting that it was a more gradual process than stereotypically described. However, there has been little solid evidence to explain why, following this alleged burst of complex... Read More