This is a tale of two Bills. Both Bills went to Harvard. Both have Harvard-size egos. Both are published authors and have large audiences. Both are Baby Boomers. (Bill McKibben is 64. Bill Gates is 70.) And both Bills are among the highest-profile Americans in the debate over climate and energy policy
A new Journal of Infection and Public Health paper published this month by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) scientists reveals an unprecedented rise in bird flu–related research worldwide—and predicts that publications on avian influenza will nearly double by 2030, marking what the authors call “accelerating growth” in the field
An international congress hosted by Artsen Collectief (Netherlands Doctors’ Collective) was convened on October 25 and 26, 2005, in Driebergen, Netherlands, and was attended by both an international panel of invited speakers and a sold-out audience
While this article is outside our normal remit, your editors feel it is important for readers to understand the extent of the bias inherent in the BBC, particularly in the field of science
Recent observations of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS show that it has developed a faint blueish hue, hinting at a potential color change. This is the third time experts have seen the comet’s coloring shift since it was discovered
With the ‘net zero’ fantasy falling to pieces, the faces of those attending COP30 will be as long as the local eight-mile highway that cleared 100,000 mature rainforest trees to help speed the 70,000 climate cultists on their way
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration(FDA) warned four companies last week that it may take action against them for selling unapproved prescription fluoride supplements for use by children under age three or older children at low or moderate risk of tooth decay
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I’ve written a piece for the Telegraph about why I’m opposed to the assisted dying bill. No doubt it will divide opinion on the Daily Sceptic, as it has divided opinion among the Telegraph commentators
Before the world fixated on probiotics and prebiotics, minerals quietly built the microbiome itself. Maybe we wouldn’t need so many “gut hacks” if we just restored the minerals first
The picture is stark – nearly all of the eleven most intense have occurred in recent years, including the two most intense, Gilbert in 1988 and Wilma in 2005
Tony Blair is back to explain how Britain should rescue itself, bringing along a new report from his Tony Blair Institute for Global Change that rebrands the country’s energy ambitions yet again