On October 8, second-year environmental science majors at Azim Premji University in Buragunte, India, gathered on campus for a focused 20-minute presentation and open discussion that asked a direct question: Are electric vehicles (EVs) really more sustainable than gas-powered vehicles? [some links, emphasis added] 

In this skill-testing question, tell me which of these statements is true:

1. The shingles vaccine is 90% effective in preventing shingles.
2. The shingles vaccine prevents shingles in ONE in every 32 people vaccinated. The other 31 people see no benefit.

Answer: both are true.

I recently had the opportunity to sit down in person with Professor Norman Fenton, a mathematician, statistician and computer scientist who has spent decades working in higher education

America cannot become the world’s undisputed ‘super intelligence’ (SI) superpower if we refuse to build the power needed to sustain it

Sasha Latypova says the Covid ‘pandemic’ was a military operation, not a viral pandemic. She says what happened in 2020 had nothing to do with a virus and everything to do with weaponising fear

Alarmists depressed by the lack of devastating North Atlantic hurricanes in 2026 are getting some late-season cheer

Chris Morrison’s new book, ‘Implausible: How Scientists, Activist Politicians and Journalists Invented a Climate Crisis’, demonstrates that the global climate crisis narrative is a manufactured political construct rather than a scientific reality. [Some emphasis added]

In the fevered imagination of certain progressive elites, Jacinda Ardern is the soft-spoken apostle of kindness. In reality she governed like a true believer in the Malthusian death cult: population must be managed, the inconvenient must be coerced or discarded, and anyone who resists is treated as surplus.

Philladelphia Eagles’ QB Jalen Hurts was originally diagnosed with superficial blood clots closer to the skin, but his condition has since taken a turn for the worse

It’s great that after just five years’ operation, a government-backed non-profit service to teachers is lifting the effectiveness of teachers’ classroom work

In evaluating the scientific achievements of a researcher for awarding promotions, for research grants, or for prizes, Citation Indices of single-authored publications are absolute, and those of multi-authored publications are obsolete

At least ten prominent athletes have died or been struck by anomalous medical emergencies in the last 21 days

On a Sunday morning in October 2019, the chief of the virus ecology unit at the National Institutes of Health’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories emailed a postdoctoral scientist in his lab with an idea

I have only one tattoo, which I got in 2023, two words on my left arm in big block letters (see above).

At the root of the scientific revolution was the idea that there was not and should never be a scientific authority. For centuries, a small number of ecclesiastical powers had decided such questions as whether the moons of Jupiter move.