This is not about whether there is such a thing as a literal social contract. The phrase has always been a metaphor, and an imprecise one since it was first invoked by Enlightenment-era thinkers trying to sort through a rationale for collective practice of some sort

There have been many drugs that have never made it on the market because they cause heart rhythm disturbances

Over at Net Zero Watch David Whitehouse gives an interesting look at some new research on the dreaded melting of European glaciers, in the form of temperature reconstructions over some 2,500 years for the Pyrenees using speleothems

One curious feature of the business we’re in, and of public policy commentary generally, is that sensible people are usually sorry when they’re proved right about a gloomy prognostication and happy when they’re wrong

Another bank is acting outside its remit by involving itself in climate issues, and proposing policies that will reduce electricity and food availability

Does anyone even remember the “Precautionary Principle”? It used to be big among environmentalists back when they could use it to spike anything they didn’t like

A common type of fungi has now been shown to penetrate the mammal brain and trigger toxic amyloid plaques like those associated with Alzheimer’s disease

The source of a giant quake on Mars has turned out to be a huge surprise

Activist wunderkind Greta Thunberg has been arrested for the second time in a year, this time in London, as she protested against ‘fossil fuels’

SIDS stands for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and since February 2021, when our WA premier, Mark McGowan, told parents they were “drop kicks” if they did not get the COVID (genetically engineered) mRNA injections and to “grow a brain”, we now have SADS – Sudden Adult Death Syndrome as well as a significant increase in many chronic illnesses that are linked to our genetics

On Monday, Oct 16, 2023, HRSA released its October data regarding petitions filed for COVID-19 related injuries and death

Listen to Benjamin Netanyahu (below in this short video) talk about he purposefully used his own people as experimental lab rats during the pandemic

A long-lost tectonic plate dubbed ‘Pontus’ that was a quarter of the size of the Pacific Ocean was discovered by chance by scientists studying ancient rocks in Borneo

We just recently passed the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks, the greatest terrorist strike in human history and an event whose political reverberations dominated world politics for most of the two decades that followed

Another year will soon pass, and another ‘Conference of the Parties’ to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (“COP”) will convene

Karl C recently has joined substack. I had a video conference call today with him to figure out how to support his remarkable work