In a stunning rebuke of the notion that mankind is having such a deleterious effect on the planet that our current age should be reclassified as a new geological time unit, a team of two dozen geologists has concluded that the Earth, for better or worse, remains in the Holocene Epoch and that a new contender, the ‘Anthropocene’ Epoch, cannot be officially recognized

This is just a tiny vignette but you might want to post it in your sites.  File this under “Ripley’s Believe it or Not” or “Soylent Green, Part II.” I live not 10 minutes from the hidey-hole of Joe Biden. The Delaware State Senator for this District is Laura Sturgeon (Democrat).

One of United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres’ personally selected advisers has been outed as a rabid anti-white racist and bigot

The Snowball Earth hypothesis, a theory that proposes the Earth’s surface was entirely or nearly entirely frozen at least once, during the Proterozoic Eon about 650 million years ago, presents a fascinating paradox when considering the role of carbon dioxide (CO2)

Four days after German chemist Dr. Andreas Noack released his final video on graphene hydroxide, he was seized by a sudden unexplained attack that caused paralysis, weakness, profound disorientation (like he was drunk), and collapse with loss of breathing

Unusual cold weather is currently affecting almost the entire planet, and Arctic sea ice is growing

Pope Francis has once again touted the abortion-tainted COVID vaccines, reissuing his condemnation of those who refused to take the shot

X owner Elon Musk recently described using small amounts of ketamine “once every other week” to manage the “chemical tides” that cause his depression

First Open thread, please stay in the general science topic range.

 

Neuralink on Wednesday streamed a video of its first human patient playing computer chess with his mind and talking about the brain implant making that possible

The skepticism toward specific climate attribution studies, especially those claiming a direct causal link between ‘climate change’ and individual weather events, finds a compelling case in the study attributing dangerous humid heat in southern West Africa to ‘climate change’

Its generic pharmaceutical name is Pregabalin. Although you may know it by one of its brand names: there’s Alzain, Axalid and Lyrica

A wide-ranging review of official science advice examines serious failings in the way scientific advice is being delivered to governments and proposes radical reforms to improve it

Pro-life researcher Dr. Michael New warned that the study is biased as it ‘lumps together’ teens who suffered ‘ectopic pregnancies, miscarriages, and stillbirths with those who carried pregnancies to term’

Scientists have discovered an exception to a 200-year-old scientific law that governs how heat diffuses through solid materials

 

Last Tuesday, that bastion of accurate reporting; The Guardian, told us the planet has almost reached the ‘heating’ that will cause our own extinction