In 1975, Newsweek — citing the supposed wisdom of scientists — warned of a “cooling world” and alluded to proposed remedies such as intentionally “melting the [Arctic] ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers.”

The idea that a specific bacterium or virus causes a particular disease — and that this pathogen is the primary determinant of whether a patient lives or dies — has long served as the dominant model for infectious diseases such as smallpox, measles, whooping cough, and scarlet fever

In all of human history, there are no papers in the peer reviewed literature showing completely unvaccinated kids are less healthy than their vaccinated peers. Zero.

A former White House health policy advisor and a direct primary care physician expose the lobbying, incentives, and contract provisions keeping the American healthcare system locked in place

A recent post at Phys.org, “Climate change makes extreme West Africa rainfall five times likelier, study finds”, relies on a weather attribution study to assert that recent heavy rainfall and subsequent flooding in West Africa were made more likely in what the attribution group calls a “pre-industrial climate.”

John Robson in his latest video for the Climate Discussion Nexus offers a skeptical critique of climate policy, green advocacy, and media alarmism.

In 1896, physician Charles F. Craig, M.D., presented a paper titled:“The Parasitic Origin of Carcinoma.” [1] At a time when medicine was just beginning to understand the hidden world of microorganisms, Craig raised a question that challenged conventional thinking:

Could some cancers be influenced by living organisms within the body?

Recently, boron and borax have come up in conversations in the private chat group that I run. I decided that it was time to make a post about the subject. This article summarizes the article titled “The Borax Conspiracy” and provides details on how to make your own boron supplement, using Mule Team Borax.

One for the history books studying the 21st Century Climate obsession. According to the Telegraph, the UK is struggling to do blood tests and even some surgery during summer heatwaves because the NHS says air conditioning should only be used in “essential areas” and human health is, apparently, less important than the jet stream

In my own professional life, I was not a scientist, and therefore I never paid much attention to the kinds of rewards and honors that practicing scientists give each other

Dr. Peter F. Mayer at Austria’s online TKP has published a new article titled: “3,000 Years of Climate History: What Solar Cycles Have to Do with Temperature Trends.”Based on reconstructions (such as the Temperature 12k database published in 2020), Dr. Mayer argues that the Holocene climate optimum occurred about 6,500 years ago. [some emphasis, links added]

The prevailing climate narrative is that the frequency of dust storms (Fig. 1) tends to increase with global warming (Fig. 2). But the empirical datasets from the Sahara-Sahel region (Fig. 3) reveal that the opposite trend is true for the period 1984-2023 (Fig. 4)

Oil industry advocates are blasting Democrat proposals to hike taxes on major oil companies, arguing that they would punish shareholders without lowering fuel prices

The plans of mice and men! As each chapter of this looming debacle is unveiled, we see that they are all inter-related and the direct consequence of the ill-thought out dash to intermittent, weather dependent energy.

Travel insurance company Insureandgo claimed on July 16th that increasing wildfires are making people change or cancel their travel plans