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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s remark in a congressional hearing last week that “My vision is that every American is wearing a wearable within four years” stirred an uproar in the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) circles, as one influencer after another scrambled to denounce his statement and accuse him of being a sellout or a traitor.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today appeared to walk back an earlier public statement that the termination of contracts between several U.S. federal agencies and scientific publisher Springer Nature had more to do with cost than content.

Pharmaceutical advertising accounts for a significant portion of television advertising, representing somewhere between 10 and 12 percent of total TV ad spending.

For too long, modern maternity care has treated childbirth as a clinical emergency rather than the sacred, physiological event it truly is. But what if there’s a better way—one that centres women, honours the body’s wisdom, and restores dignity and trust to the birthing process?

In a previous article, I discussed the decrease in vaccination rates among children in America during 2023-2024.

The Berlin Constitutional Court has declared the “Berlin car-free” referendum admissible, paving the way for a possible drastic reduction in car traffic. [emphasis, links added]

As Canadians host the 50th annual G7 Summit this week in Kananaskis, Alberta, they can expect a deluge of “climate-saving” proclamations — rhetoric divorced from scientific evidence and economic reality.

A United Nations climate ‘expert’ is calling for people who question the goal of avoiding a ‘climate catastrophe’ by rapidly eliminating ‘fossil fuels’ to face criminal penalties

I want to believe in RFK Jr. and the MAHA movement. The vision of making America healthy again represents something essential – a return to biological sovereignty in an age of pharmaceutical colonization.

It is one of the most effective talking points in the climate activist arsenal… and one of the most dishonest.

Last year was a busy year for tornadoes by any standard. Excluding the small EF-0s, the number was the highest on record, slightly above even 1973 and 2011:

Dr. Anthony Fauci may have to testify under oath regarding his knowledge of the origins of COVID-19, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) wrote in a series of posts Monday on X.

Only 30% of U.S. voters oppose revisiting the CDC’s childhood vaccine schedule, according to an independent poll conducted June 24-25 — the same week a new panel of CDC vaccine advisers announced plans to study the cumulative effects of the childhood vaccine schedule.

There have indeed been some eyebrow-raising or even laughable-sounding claims made in the broader discourse around climate change, often highlighted by skeptics as examples of “climate alarmism.” The video below reveals the craziness.

Switzerland is home to some of the world’s most renowned high-altitude research facilities, most notably the Sphinx Observatory and the High Altitude Research Stations at Jungfraujoch and Gornergrat