Picture this scenario…you’re reading this article on a mobile device which is likely tracking not just your location, but your heart rate, your sleep patterns, your oxygen saturation, and —if you have the right apps— the electrical rhythms of your heart
The Trump administration has declared the “Green New Scam”—as President Trump terms it—finished. The United States will no longer hobble its industrial base with unrealistic ‘renewable’-energy mandates while China and India burn coal without restraint, the White House has announced
I stand to begin my lecture before an audience of academics and students at an Oxford University college. The college has no idea that I am that evening’s lecturer, nor what the lecture is about
As a biologist working within the field, I’ve watched the shift firsthand. We are no longer in an era of pure discovery; we are in an era of “Science™”— a version of research occupied by corporations and designed to produce results that benefit their bottom line
Kelly Marsh never used to think about breathing as soon as she woke up. But she does now — after doctors told her that exposure to disinfectant chemicals used to meet COVID-era workplace rules permanently damaged her lungs
Mainstream media are widely promoting a study claiming that community water fluoridation has no effect on IQ, but critics told The Defender the study contains fundamental methodological errors that invalidate the authors’ conclusions. The Defender asked to be included in a media call with the study’s author, but was denied access
Moderna is preparing to inject approximately 350 people with an experimental mRNA Lyme disease shot as part of a newly listed Phase 2 human clinical trial, according to the company website and ClinicalTrials.gov
Purdue Pharma, the architect of much of the U.S. opioid epidemic through its aggressive promotion of OxyContin, has once again been sentenced to pay fines-this time $225 million to the Department of Justice in a criminal settlement, with broader bankruptcy proceedings involving billions more from the Sackler family and the company itself (totalling around $5.5–7.4 billion in various penalties and settlements)
Up to 20 percent of drilled oil and gas is turned into petrochemicals and these are used to make famine-reducing fertiliser, plastics and life-saving medicines
Universities in the Western world have suffered a serious reputational decline in recent years, as many departments have been taken over by ideological activists committed to radical political action rather than open inquiry and free speech
One-fifth of global oil trade transits the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic risk that, given current events, has shattered supply-chain complacency in world energy markets. Similarly shattered is the illusion that the world is any less dependent on oil today than it was during the epoch-setting 1973–74 Arab oil embargo
Biden-era health officials rejected a state-of-the-art statistical tool for detecting COVID-19 vaccine safety signals — and instead deliberately continued using a broken method because they didn’t want to “feed in to [sic] anti-vaccination rhetoric,” according to a report released today by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.)
People say the Internet of Bio-Nano-Things (IoBNT) is a theoretical construct, a far-fetched fever dream of even the most fringe in conspiracy theory circles. But it’s not