Substack has implemented measures to comply with the UK’s Online Safety Act, which requires age verification for accessing certain types of content deemed “potentially harmful.”  The obvious problem is:  What information does the UK government deem “potentially harmful”?

Children should be given flu vaccinations to protect their grandparents at Christmas, NHS bosses have said – despite the lack of evidence that flu vaccines prevent infection or transmission

Robin Guenier has written a comprehensive analysis of how the United Nation’s COP process developed from the outset:

In the British Medical Journal last month, an opinion piece by Nicholas Hopkinson; Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Imperial College London, offered “a lesson from Nye Bevan on the roots of fascism”

When the plug-in Toyota Prius hybrid went on sale in 2012, its rechargeable battery pack and petrol engine combo was hailed as the best of both worlds.

Positive news on the Arctic front as far as polar bears are concerned so far this year, with no reports of dead or dying bears, or of horrific attacks on humans that I’ve heard about

One of the biggest scandals so far in climate science publishing has suckered in a number of government policy advisers around the world including the UK Office for Budget Responsibility

Britain’s Covid hangover is wrecking courts, schools, the NHS and wallets – and nobody’s really talking about it, says Josh Glancy in the Times

A Critical Look at the Unintended Consequences of Routine Breast Cancer Screening – For decades, mammography has been promoted as an unquestioned public-health triumph. But increasing evidence suggests we may have missed an important unintended consequence.

My inspiration emanates from conversing with NIH chief Dr Jay Bhattacharya, November 1st – subsequent to his Brownstone event keynote in which he spoke of the failure of scientific adjudication during Covid.

The old academic putdown ‘it’s not even wrong’ comes to mind in considering the disgraced and now retracted science paper Kotz et al.

On December 6th, The Telegraph reported that Britain’s biggest energy provider is raising the cost of charging electric cars in a fresh blow to drivers

The establishment of the litigation free compulsory childhood vaccine schedule has been linked to a massive increase in chronic ailments in children (think autism, allergies, autoimmune disease, SIDS, asthma etc)

Professor Sir Chris Whitty silenced government ethics advisers who warned about the impact of Covid policies

Ground-breaking calculations made by a group of American scientists and recently published by Science, show offshore wind farms cause ocean heating, with localised surface sea temperatures rising by a persistent 0.3°C-0.4°C and interannual variability up to 1°C