Tiny pieces of plastic, widely found in food, water and air, can harm the development and function of specialized brain cells that regulate reproduction, new research reports

During a recent segment of “60 Minutes,” former FDA Commissioner David Kessler said ultraprocessed foods pose a public health threat “as large, if not larger,” than tobacco

The 2009 Endangerment Finding labelled carbon dioxide a ‘pollutant’ that threatens public health and welfare. For more than a decade, that designation has functioned as the legal foundation for regulating ‘fossil’ fuels, electricity generation, transportation, and much of the modern world

The US Department of Defense is considering blacklisting Anthropic — one of America’s leading AI companies, and the creator of the Claude large language model — after it refused to let the military use its technology without ethical limits

A key alarmist premise is that recent changes in temperature are “unprecedented” thus proving that we broke nature so we own it and must make good

A Democrat’s bill in the Maryland State Senate would impose fees on electric vehicles to fund a program that advertises their affordability

There have been more than three times the number of claims under the NHS Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme for Covid jabs than during the previous four decades for all other vaccines combined – but only one percent have been successful

Here, I promise you, was “breaking” news from not long ago: “United States Representative Tim Burchett says aliens could be stationed in five or six underwater bases off the U.S. coast”

There are lessons to be drawn from the recent near-buckling of the U.S. energy grid under the stress of the winter, rumours of whose demise have been greatly exaggerated

Headline (one of many): “Long COVID may be triggering Alzheimer’s-like changes in the brain: new study”

The Media Hall Monitors repeatedly tell us that CBS’s new editorial direction is Trump-adjacent and “MAGA-friendly.” This is, of course, a shameless exaggeration most recently belied by a weird Sunday Morning report that injected ‘climate change’ into the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding

Yesterday, Raphael Lataster published an ecological analysis in the International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine examining excess mortality in Australia during 2021

Miles Deutscher recently posted something on X which, on the face of it, sounds very disturbing

Many countries around the world demand that all children be vaccinated against measles. When they start school or kindergarten, their parents are asked for proof of vaccination. The state tells them the injection is beneficial and protective for their child

US supplies of gasoline are being shipped out of the country to travel thousands of miles via the Bahamas before finally ending up in California, a state battling shrinking fuelmaking capacity and high pump prices

For years on Irrational Fear, I have written about Dansgaard–Oeschger (D–O) events, abrupt climate shifts during the last glacial period when temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere surged by double-digit degrees in mere decades