Back in 2020 I was an early contributor to this site. Like others who wrote for Sceptics then we were mainly motivated by a sense of bewildered incredulity at the sight of Britain plunging headlong into policies that guaranteed future destitution and ruin.

A landmark study that claimed men enjoy an unfair advantage in scientific careers has been debunked after a nearly identical rerun of the experiment finds that the opposite is true: it’s women who have the unfair advantage

Pharmaceutical branding: “building the beast” ~~ Each word has an entire volume of history attached to it.  Where does it come from?

Picture this: you’re a vegetarian physician running a health spa in Michigan at the turn of the 20th century, convinced that meat consumption leads to sexual degeneracy and moral decay.

A few days of solar fireworks were all it took to remind us of a basic truth: the universe is not a friendly place

I had a fruitful conversation with Grok, after he/she/it mentioned in passing that floods in Monmouth since 2000 had become more frequent because of ‘climate change’

The title is lifted from an email I received, one of many asking me to look into the paper “A calibration of nucleic acid (PCR) by antibody (IgG) tests in Germany: the course of SARS-CoV-2 infections estimated” by Michael Günther Robert Rockenfeller, and Harald Walach in Frontiers: Epidemiology

In a development with profound scientific and public-health implications, the CDC has quietly updated its longstanding position on vaccines and autism—acknowledging for the first time that the long-repeated denial “vaccines do not cause autism” has never been an evidence-based statement

Under a ruling last week by the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK Health Security Agency is not required to publicly release data that could link Covid ‘vaccines’ to excess deaths

Israel is descending into a widespread mental health crisis following a familiar pattern known to science. Such large-scale violent conflict has consistently been shown to produce substantial, long-lasting mental-health impacts among whole populations.

Britain faces the risk of energy shortages because of a “planning paralysis” crippling the nuclear sector, a think tank has warned.

A new peer-reviewed study has quietly revealed one of the most consequential biological findings of the pandemic era — and the authors never acknowledge it: Every single vaccinated participant in the study had fibrinolysis-resistant, ThT-positive amyloid microclots circulating in their blood

In my role as Co-chairperson and member of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, I have been participating in a training course regarding the GRADE methodology for public health decision-making

Soft light. Glowing faces. The uplifting orchestral swell of a life turned from dark to better. Those sun-dappled blades of grass? Not just stalks whistling in the wind. But a metaphor, a rebirth and rejuvenation of not only the human condition – of reality itself

This really is serious. The British Medical Journal has put its reputation on the line with this report detailing the flaws in AstraZeneca’s Ticagrelor testing, reporting and the subsequent warnings ignored by the FDA