As I note in my upcoming Broadside/HarperCollins book Confidently Wrong, one defining feature of upper-middle-class life over the past 50–60 years has been scientists, activists, and public intellectuals making the most horrifying kind of doomsday predictions — which invariably fail to come true.

You’ll all probably know that an undercover sting operation by a newly-formed investigative group called Verbatim — which is backed by the US-linked climate journalism group Centre for Climate Reporting (CCR) — targeted senior officials of the UK political party Reform UK.

If you are a member of the British public and you want to complain about something a pharmaceutical company has done, said or written, you effectively have one option.

Is Tamiflu a scam? Over 20 years after it entered routine practice, researchers have finally done the randomized trial that should have been done before the drug was widely prescribed for critically ill influenza patients. The trial found that not only did Tamiflu provide no benefit — but more patients died with Tamiflu than without it

Multiple reports over the past week, citing anonymous sources, have suggested that the Chinese Communist Party is considering a bid to host COP33, the United Nations’ premier climate-alarmist summit scheduled for 2028

In recent decades we have been told that there has been one “pandemic” after another. Almost all of them have involved alleged “viruses”, including the largest to date, The COVID-19 Fraud.

A trio of academics, responsible for the paper “Temperature and Maltreatment of Young Children“, did not mention Lindsay Clancy by name, but you will forgive my lapse into clickbait titling when you realize they had women like her in mind.

One year ago, we covered the disturbing push by Canadian medical authorities to expand euthanasia to infants

Although the coupled ocean-atmosphere processes associated with El Niño are well established, questions remain about what determines the onset, strength, and timing of individual events.

Common medications may reshape the gut microbiome long after the last dose is taken. In a study of more than 2,500 people, researchers found lasting microbial changes linked not only to antibiotics, but also to antidepressants, beta-blockers, acid-reducing drugs, and benzodiazepines.

The U.S. Senate has opened an inquiry into Flock Safety, a major manufacturer of automated license-plate readers, over its data collection and search practices

Top medical journals published images of ordinary human cellular structures labeled as “coronavirus,” according to a 2021 review authored by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scientists and collaborators titled “Difficulties in Differentiating Coronaviruses from Subcellular Structures in Human Tissues by Electron Microscopy.”

For the first time since the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) temporarily removed a controversial climate science chapter, its new president is publicly addressing the controversy — and acknowledging that the chapter’s authors were closely “associated” with plaintiffs in climate lawsuits. [some emphasis, links added]

Anyone following my career knows that whether writing for newspapers or commenting in other forums, I have consistently expressed the same views about climate and energy issues that I express in my columns for The Empowerment Alliance

A network of environmental nonprofits and philanthropic foundations is using lawsuits as a weapon against ‘fossil fuel’ companies while keeping their own funding sources hidden from public view, according to a guest column making the rounds this week