About 70% of gas restaurant kitchens in a US study topped the EPA's outdoor NO2 standard
Researchers from PSE Healthy Energy, Stanford and NYU found NO2 above the EPA's outdoor one-hour limit in about 70% of gas restaurant kitchens they measured. The three all-electric kitchens stayed within every pollution guideline during cooking hours, so the choice of appliance also determines how much pollution kitchen workers breathe.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives50
- Confidence60
Twenty-five years on, the program has documented more than 139,000 health conditions in more than 150,000 enrolled survivors and responders, about 38 percent of the 400,000 people the CDC estimates were exposed after the attacks.
Reality
- Evidence70
- Adoption38
- Hype gap0
- Incentives35
- Confidence70
Stanford deleted mouse cortex to make room for a larger human brain graft
Mice bred without much of their own neocortex let transplanted human tissue grow bigger and wire up further, and the oversight the team describes is expert guidance plus a committee the university assembled.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives66
- Confidence55
99% detection in 3,339 pregnancies turns an autism-traits test into a dose comparison
NYU Langone's team measured organophosphate metabolites in urine from 3,339 ECHO pregnancies and found no association with Social Responsiveness Scale scores at ages five to seven. The result is narrower than it sounds.
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives62
- Confidence45
US surrogacy will be banned over the gaps, not the practice
A newborn sits under a Dallas restraining order while three states argue custody. The failure list in the McKenna West case reads like a compliance checklist nobody has adopted.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives62
- Confidence44