The Lies About What Causes Wildfires Just Keep Coming

Written by Climate Discussion Nexus

Forest fires have been a hot topic the last few years since there were some bad ones in the Amazon, LA, BC, eastern Canada and, once again, eastern Canada, and a lot of people have said some very ignorant things about their becoming more common and indeed the “new normal”

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How 261 Volunteers Failed to Catch the Spanish Flu

Written by Roman Bystrianyk

In 1918, the world was dying. War had already claimed twenty million lives. Disease had taken millions more. But the disease that history remembers above all others—the Spanish flu—carries with it a strange and uncomfortable secret: when scientists tried to prove it spread from person to person, they failed—spectacularly.

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