Some UK Schools are banning children from playing outside during heatwaves, keeping them inside for ‘hot play’ breaks when their playgrounds are deemed to be ‘too hot to use safely’

Utilities across the European Union boosted electricity output from gas and coal plants by 13% in the first half of 2025 from a year earlier—the biggest annual increase for January to June since 2017, [as reported by Reuters’ market analyst Gavin Maguire, citing data from the clean-energy think tank Ember]. [emphasis, links added]

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I just sent a press inquiry to HHS. It’s an opportunity for the CDC to acknowledge its errors. This could be game changing.

President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order on Monday aimed at eliminating subsidies for wind and solar energy in furtherance of the recently enacted One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB).

In its latest Fiscal Risks and Sustainability Report, the Office for Budget Responsibility confirms the consequences of nearly two decades of failed energy policy.

The federal goals of ‘net zero’ by 2050 and “all-electric everything” have been placed “on hold” at least temporarily

When politicians tell you they are about to fix the weather, or indeed that they are about to do anything marvellous or even adequate, it is a good idea to ask what evidence they have given previously that they can do anything of the sort.

After retiring the entire prior membership of the CDC‘s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and appointing first eight, then seven (one could not resolve conflict of interest concerns) new ACIP members, a wave of coordinated media attacks on both Secretary Kennedy and those he appointed hit the internet, newsstands and corporate cable news broadcasts

Yesterday, the FDA granted full approval for Moderna’s COVID-19 mRNA injection (Spikevax) in “at-risk” children aged 6 months to 11 years:

To those familiar with my work, it comes as no surprise that I take great interest in highlighting the forgotten voices from the formative years of germ “theory” and virology—those who examined the rise of these pseudoscientific fields with critical eyes.

You wake up to an alarm, flick on the light, brew coffee, and drive to work. Every step requires energy—the stuff that shares the coin of physical reality with matter, the E in E=MC²

In a move that feels ripped straight from a sci-fi screenplay, the U.S. House of Representatives is considering a groundbreaking bill that would allow artificial intelligence to prescribe FDA-approved medications—without human oversight

Can anyone explain why no country in the world has stopped their COVID-19 vaccine campaign?

This powerful documentary film directed by Erki Tangsoo reveals the untold stories of COVID-19 vaccine trial participants from around the globe.

When disaster strikes, the normal empathetic reaction is to save those in danger, succour the injured, hungry or dispossessed, protect those threatened with harm and then draw lessons.

The history books tell us that in 1630, a plague epidemic hit the city of Milan. In 2018, David Crowe (who sadly died from cancer in July 2020) discussed this event in episode 192 of his podcast, which can be listened to here