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.

As the EU narrative collapses, desperate leaders are planning more tyrannical measures to keep it all from sinking

On December 30, 2025, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) nuked one of the most entrenched and ethically fraught financial mechanisms in modern American healthcare: the reimbursement-linked vaccine incentive system

In a recent article, I introduced the idea that the transition from the thermal maximum of the Holocene Interglacial that defined the Northgrippian sub-epoch, to the on-set of present Meghalayan (neoglacial) sub-epoch, some 4,200 years ago, was found to coincide with both a sudden multi-centennial increase in iceberg calving rates into the North Atlantic and with an increase in the environmental concentrations of beryllium‑10 (¹⁰Be) and carbon‑14 (¹⁴C) isotopes

At COP30, the United Nations Climate Conference, Governor Gavin Newsom praised California’s use of ‘renewable’ energy and attacked the energy policies of the Trump administration

A deepfake AI video falsely claims George Will reported a Supreme Court order for Trump to produce financial documents in 72 hours.

Arcturus Therapeutics’s Kostaive (zapomeran, ARCT-154) self-amplifying mRNA COVID-19 vaccine is said to force cells in the body to produce SARS-CoV-2 spike protein—detectable in draining lymph nodes for at least 28 days—and a replicase enzyme that makes more copies of the vaccine mRNA, with the enzyme itself detectable for up to 15 days