“We’re eating a credit card’s worth of plastic every week! Microplastics fill our bloodstream, lodge in our organs, and poison our children! The oceans choke under an island of plastic the size of Texas! We all have kilos of the stuff at arm’s reach all day, and we are drowning in it!” AAARRGGHH…
A volcanic eruption around the year 1345 may have set off a chain reaction that unleashed Europe’s deadliest pandemic, the Black Death, scientists say.
National Public Radio ran a segment claiming climate change was to blame for Hurricane Melissa’s severity and its impact on Jamaica. There is no data to justify this claim, and it is not supported by Jamaica’s hurricane history or Atlantic hurricane trends. [emphasis, links added]
Just weeks after 50,000 people flew to the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém and agreed to agree on nothing other than the need for more meetings, the U.N. is welcoming upwards of 600 “experts” in France to prepare yet another report on “climate change.” [emphasis, links added]
Let’s start with a number so large it’s almost abstract: 63 million. That’s more than the population of Italy. It’s roughly the number of people who live in California and Florida combined.
There is a surreal aura around the topic of AI and AI investment. Theoretically on the one hand you instinctively know AI has unlimited potential for great good; on the other hand you know AI has unlimited potential for great evil. And as we all know good or evil is in the eye of the beholder.
In recent years, a striking pattern has emerged in discussions surrounding women’s well-being: despite unprecedented educational and professional gains, many women—especially single, liberal women—report higher levels of anxiety, depression, and emotional distress.
The other day I published a retrospective article about how I and others contributing to this site could see from the start that lockdowns would be a public health, social and economic disaster.
In the third episode of the AntiViral series, I turn to the underlying flaws in logic that form the foundation of the entire field. Without sound reasoning to support it, virology is a house of cards waiting to collapse.
The human foot is astonishingly complex — a small but intricate biomechanical masterpiece designed to bear weight, adapt to surfaces, and provide propulsion. Wearing shoes for centuries undoubtedly has had a harmful effect on foot health.
As California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom traveled to Brazil touting his failed energy agenda in mid-November, the reality back home is unavoidable: because of his policies, Californians are paying some of the highest gas and electricity prices in the nation. [emphasis, links added]
It was strange, even sad, to watch the remaining zealots gathered at COP30 try to convince themselves, and the world, that it was an exciting and productive event.
CDC data from 566 US counties, with a combined population of nearly 260 million, show that COVID-19 vaccination in 2023 was significantly linked to fewer live births.