Many studies have found a correlation between heavy social media use and higher levels of internalizing disorders (e.g., anxiety and depression) in adolescents, especially in girls

Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), was fired by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on October 1, 2025, after she filed a whistleblower complaint with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel

Last August, the Daily Sceptic drew attention to the UK Met Office inventing temperature data at its fictitious ‘open’ weather station at Lowestoft

I recently watched a friend check her phone during what should have been a blissful sunset walk. She wasn’t scrolling Instagram or answering texts, she was making sure her steps were “counting.”

A new publication in The Lancet, titled “The EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy, Sustainable, and Just Food Systems,” presents what the authors call “a great food transformation” to limit what we eat.

For 75 years dietary dogma in preventive cardiology has focussed on reducing saturated fat in the human diet with the goal of reducing LDL-C and rates of coronary heart disease

A popular folk tale from Western Bulgaria, a region known for its idiosyncratic humour, tells of two friends who went to market

Maybe our wretched PM might care to explain why ‘climate change’ apparently only affects a handful of countries, such as Eritrea, Afghanistan, Sudan, Somalia and Iran?

One of the least appreciated aspects of medicine is the numerous frameworks that have been developed to understand how the body works and how to heal it

Since January 2022, I have been repeatedly asked for my opinion on the hypothesis that suggests the Hunga Tonga event was a major factor in making the 2023 – 2024 El Nino event uniquely strong in its influence on the global average air temperature (GAT) anomaly

In 2008, GDP per capita in the US and UK was roughly equivalent, and Britain could credibly claim to be a wealthy nation. How much difference two decades make

French oil and gas giant TotalEnergies has confirmed its plans to quit its renewable energy assets in Australia and many other countries, despite its recent win in the federal government’s flagship Capacity Investment Scheme tender.

A newly released report by ChargerHelp! shows that while 64% of Americans now live within two miles of an electric vehicle charging station, nearly one-third of charging attempts fail.

This excellent piece from Elon Musk warns that “digital ID” schemes—marketed as convenient and secure—consolidate personal identity, finances, health, travel, and online behaviour into a single, state-accessible profile

Every October, “Pinktober” ushers in a flood of pink ribbons and breast cancer campaigns. Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM)—established in 1985—has grown into a massive cause-marketing phenomenon

A massive power outage which brought much of Spain and Portugal to a standstill earlier this year is the first known blackout caused by excessive voltage, a report has found.