A Bloomberg feature begins “In the dark, chilly winter months, it’s not uncommon to walk down one of London’s more affluent residential streets without noticing the smell of wood smoke. Bittersweet and pungent, the odor typically comes from an appliance that has become the epitome of British middle-class aspiration: the wood-burning stove.”

By the year 2030, more than 40% of adults in the U.K. are predicted to be obese, with the figure in the U.S. rising to nearly 50%

The federal government will stop paying physicians based on the number of patients they vaccinate, and is urging state health agencies to stop using similar financial incentives

Previously, I discussed the dirty secret of the SSRI antidepressants—they trigger psychotic violence which typically results in suicide and sometimes in horrific homicide (e.g., mass shootings or violent stabbings of a loved one)

After President Donald Trump removed Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, the U.S. has emerged as the “master of the hemisphere” and is positioned to leverage the Latin American nation’s resources to outpace China, Russia, and Canada in the coming years, energy sector experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. [some emphasis, links added]

AI is set to transform and disrupt the way in which healthcare is delivered.  The Government’s 10-year health plan for England commits the NHS to becoming “the most AI-enabled healthcare system in the world”, supported by the delivery of a new regulatory framework for medical devices including AI.

I stole most of the headline from The Times, which ran a subtler version: “Laws banning FGM are harmful and ‘stigmatising’, say academics“. The practice of slicing off a women’s pertinents is now so common in England, thanks to massive immigration, they know it by its acronym “FGM”, for female genital mutilation. It’s still on the rare side in the States, so I spelled it out.

A few days ago, The Telegraph reported that Hitachi, the world’s leading producer of high-voltage transformers, has told the British government that a worldwide shortage of raw materials means they cannot supply enough equipment to keep expanding our electricity grid

Seasonal influenza is still interpreted through a framework that modern biology has already outgrown

Elon Musk’s Tesla has suffered its biggest-ever drop in annual sales, leading it to be overtaken as the world’s biggest seller of electric cars

The share of U.S. counties where 95 percent or more of kindergartners were vaccinated against measles—the number mainstream vaccine devotees say is needed to achieve so-called “herd immunity”—has dropped from 50 percent before Covid to 28 percent, according to a Washington Post (WaPo) examination of public records from 44 states and the District of Columbia

In a move that has sent shock waves through the offshore wind business, the Trump Administration has ordered a pause in the leases of five turbine projects under construction

AI’s expanding omnipresence in our lives is a double-edged sword, presenting both remarkable opportunities and significant privacy and security challenges.

Robert Malone (pictured above) did a substack on a couple of AlterAI queries. I want to highlight one of those queries for you just in case you missed it

Richard Betts, Head of Climate Impacts Research at the Met Office, was wheeled out on Channel 4 News to promote their dubious “hottest year evah in UK” claim.