The world of science has lost a brilliant and unwavering voice with the passing of Emeritus Professor Cliff Ollier on Friday, September 26, 2025. He died peacefully at home, concluding a remarkable 93-year life dedicated to the relentless pursuit of knowledge.

A strange, lopsided dust cloud shrouds Earth’s moon, ever skewed toward whichever side is facing the sun. Now, a new study may finally explain how the asymmetrical cloud got its shape

Artificial sweeteners are often promoted as smart swaps for sugar, yet they carry consequences that reach far beyond taste or calorie count

Medicine is strongly biased towards adopting biochemical models of disease as this facilitates costly therapeutics being developed for each disease and hence sustains the medical industry

Although there is no such thing as too many minerals (your body largely takes what it needs and dumps the rest), I felt you needed time to reflect and “re-charge” (pun absolutely intended)

No one would fault you for believing that between 1980 and 2020, we experienced a warming of the climate at a rate that is unprecedented in the last 2,000 years

The National Health Service has spent £1.4 billion of taxpayers’ money on ‘net zero’ schemes without reducing its ‘carbon’ footprint at all

British motorists travelling abroad face being taxed for driving electric cars in France under Rachel Reeves’s pay-per-mile plan.

The BBC is preparing to launch an investigation to assess bias in its climate change coverage, amid a growing crisis at the corporation. [some emphasis, links added]

I spent some time today revisiting the MMWR data for LA county that was published by the MMWR that claimed that most of the people who succumbed to SARS-2 “infection” were “unvaccinated”

There was a time when the white coat symbolized courage. It meant that a physician stood between humanity and harm, guided not by decree but by conscience

Back in 2020, Ofcom, the UK broadcasts regulator, performed a pivotal role in censoring dissenting voices opposed to the dominant covid narrative

In North America, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) holds enormous influence over how children’s medical care is shaped. Its public positions and policy priorities steer the direction of pediatric practice, often setting the tone for what’s considered standard care

Climate Aid is “spaffing taxpayers’ money up the wall”, the shadow energy secretary has said. Claire Coutinho said that an £11.6bn budget meant to help fight ‘climate change’ had become “a bureaucrat’s dream and the taxpayers’ nightmare”

Oatly, the Swedish oat-milk darling once hailed as the future of ‘ethical capitalism’, has finally said the quiet part out loud.