Over the past decade and a half, we have watched smartphones and social media transform childhood, drive up rates of youth mental illness, expose children to severe harms, and pull them away from sleep, school, and in-person socialization.

This is my response to the consultation invitation (by 29/1/26) on “Scotland’s Draft Climate Change Plan: 2026–2040”. By proxy, it doubles as my dissection of the economy-wrecking UK-wide Net Zero agenda. The 31-page draft plan is available here with all relevant documents here.

Is artificial intelligence the new dot-com bubble? Recently, I uploaded two videos (available here and here) in which I walked through the soaring, surreal valuations and the $1.5 trillion debt bubble hanging over the big tech industry.

The system is rigged. It’s designed for dependency, not healing. It’s built on a foundation of patents and profits, not prevention and wellness. But people are waking up. They’re asking questions.

As more and more people are awakening to the dangers of vaccines, they are gradually discovering a problem vaccine safety advocates have had to deal with for decades—talking to vaccine zealots.

 

Should people expect to be happy all the time? What percent of the time is it acceptable to be unhappy before a Selective Serotonin‑Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI) is recommended?

Back in 2020 I was an early contributor to this site. Like others who wrote for Sceptics then we were mainly motivated by a sense of bewildered incredulity at the sight of Britain plunging headlong into policies that guaranteed future destitution and ruin.

Israel is descending into a widespread mental health crisis following a familiar pattern known to science. Such large-scale violent conflict has consistently been shown to produce substantial, long-lasting mental-health impacts among whole populations.

Pharmaceutical branding: “building the beast” ~~ Each word has an entire volume of history attached to it.  Where does it come from?

Britain faces the risk of energy shortages because of a “planning paralysis” crippling the nuclear sector, a think tank has warned.

Picture this: you’re a vegetarian physician running a health spa in Michigan at the turn of the 20th century, convinced that meat consumption leads to sexual degeneracy and moral decay.

 

The new “Autism and Vaccines” page starts telling the truth, including:

“The claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.”

 

The headline says it all. In short, COP30 achieved nothing at all. I will do a full analysis later, but Matt McGrath’s summing up tells us all we need to know:

Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator, suffered from a rare genetic condition that impaired the normal development of his sexual organs, according to groundbreaking new research.

Harvard laments loss of funds while parents and sane doctors breathe sigh of relief.