Few Americans give a second thought to how they access energy for cooking. As a rough approximation, 60 percent of US households cook directly with electricity—tapping one of the largest and most reliable grids in the world—with the rest largely relying on ready access to cheap natural gas delivered via pipeline

After adjusting for GDP, new EEA data show disaster costs have remained flat from 1990 to 2024

Did Supertramp guess it right all along? Was this truly the Crime of the Century?

I always found it odd that everyone insisted I avoid sunlight and wear sunscreen during outdoor activities, as I noticed that sunlight felt great and caused my veins to dilate, indicating the body deeply craved sunlight

June 23, 2026 takedown: 455 defendants, 90 licensed medical professionals, over $6.5B in alleged false claims, HHS/CMS/OIG participation, CMS suspensions/revocations, and Sec. Kennedy’s statement on HHS collaboration with law enforcement

British people who wish to use an airline to travel will face huge prices increases by 2030, thanks to new regulations about what the airlines must use for fuel

A few days ago, I spent time with a remarkable group of people from many professions and backgrounds, the Brownstone Fellows and Scholars. Some were physicians, others were scientists, economists, historians, attorneys, writers, and scholars

The FDA fired its acting drug chief after she blocked approval of an immune-suppressing drug for children. Her replacement approved it four weeks later — without the independent expert review she had ordered

There is no established or guideline-endorsed dose of ivermectin for cancer treatment, and all published experience comes from case reports, observational series, repurposed-drug programs, or extrapolation from preclinical studies

The US Food and Drug Administration has announced a sweeping new initiative aimed at speeding experimental drugs from the laboratory into human testing and ultimately toward approval, unveiling measures designed to cut development timelines, reduce information requirements, rely less on traditional animal testing, and accelerate the path to market

In August 2025, virologist Ed Rybicki discovered ViroLIEgy.com after I cited one of his blog posts in an article on Tobacco Mosaic “Virus”

Europe has been in the grip of a heatwave with temperatures reaching between 35 and 40 degrees Celsius

In the spring of 1952, two physicians at a psychiatric hospital in Saskatchewan began the first double-blind placebo-controlled trial in the history of psychiatry

Each year the World Bank hands out about $120 billion dollars in grants and loans to poor and middle income countries

Every time a new executive order lands on the Resolute Desk or a tech CEO boasts about “quantum supremacy,” I roll my eyes. The recent flurry of government quantum initiatives feels like political theater — designed to make voters feel safe while corporate insiders cash in

When the 2020 coronavirus pandemic hit, thousands of doctors, scientists, academics, lawyers, economists, business leaders and journalists questioned the validity of unprecedented restrictions imposed on us globally