The Truth Wears Off: Is there something wrong with the scientific method? « JoNova

The disturbing implication of the Crabbe study is that a lot of extraordinary scientific data are nothing but noise. The hyperactivity of those coked-up Edmonton mice wasn’t an interesting new fact—it was a meaningless outlier, a by-product of invisible variables we don’t understand.

Farm chickens perishing in severe cold, power outage blamed

RAJSHAHI, Jan 3: Chilly cold weather and erratic supply of electricity left the poultry farmers at Bagha upazila in the district in trouble. Failing to withstand the cold, layer and broiler chickens are dying in most of the poultry farms in the upazila. Long absence of electricity is making the poultry farmers unable to keep their chickens warm.