On 10 July 2026 Esther McVey asked the UK Department of Health and Social Care what assessment it had made of a 1997 Lancet paper by Ernest Hook and Andrew Czeizel.

They tried to highlight the troubling possibility that the claimed reduction in babies born with neural tube defects could be accounted for by killing the affected embryos.

This was the study I highlighted yesterday, which found that European summer warming in recent decades has been driven by reduced aerosol emissions

This post by Hrishikesh Joshi, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona, originally appeared on his recently-launched Substack, Desert Philosophy. He and I were among the many collaborators on a paper on scientists censoring science.

In late April, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change admitted that Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5, or RCP8.5, the high-emissions climate model scenario that dominated climate research and policy, was “implausible”

Joe Biden spent four years telling you fossil fuels were dying.The world just used more oil, gas, and coal than at any point in human history.

The Aztecs sacrificed children to placate the climate gods, and it seems Britain isn’t far behind

Nobody wants to go to the doctor with a question, only to be told, “I don’t know.” Doctors strive for definite answers, but often there are none

The above illustration shows what North Africa may have looked like during the Holocene Maximum, also called the Holocene Climate Optimum (9,000 to 5,000 years ago)

A new metagenomic study led by Dr. Sabine Hazan analyzed stool samples from 60 adults, including 25 patients with aggressive cancer, 15 with non-aggressive cancer, and 20 controls without cancer

A wrongful death lawsuit that seeks to hold energy companies responsible for extreme weather events was allowed to proceed recently after a judge in Washington denied the companies’ bids to throw the case out, despite admitting the case faces an uphill battle on the merits. [some emphasis, links added]

Forest fires have been a hot topic the last few years since there were some bad ones in the Amazon, LA, BC, eastern Canada and, once again, eastern Canada, and a lot of people have said some very ignorant things about their becoming more common and indeed the “new normal”

 

Electromagnetic poisoning may be advancing not because humanity has safely adapted to chronic synthetic field exposures, but because we have become increasingly habituated to them—and the loss of awareness itself has largely gone unnoticed.

In 1918, the world was dying. War had already claimed twenty million lives. Disease had taken millions more. But the disease that history remembers above all others—the Spanish flu—carries with it a strange and uncomfortable secret: when scientists tried to prove it spread from person to person, they failed—spectacularly.

‘Renewable’ energy proponents often claim that the problem of intermittent generation from wind and solar power can be addressed with batteries

Legal controversy in New Zealand mounts as prosecutors defy a judge and continue to hide from the Court key COVID19 vaccine database evidence in the ongoing criminal trial of whistleblower Barry Young.