Category: Science

  • By Selwyn Duke It was three days after his second Covid shot, in 2021, that Jacob Clynick unexpectedly passed away. He was 13 years old — with no known health problems. Later the same year, 16-year-old Ernesto Ramirez, Jr. died five days after taking just one Pfizer Covid shot. The story was the same with both boys: Their…

  • By Selwyn Duke It was just revealed that the Biden administration intentionally buried an “inconvenient” study in order to justify an energy crackdown. Of course, we’re seldom shocked to hear that politics is, well, political. But what about when study authors themselves bury, or otherwise obscure, inconvenient data? This not only happens, says a Ph.D.…

  • By Selwyn Duke For the greentopian Left, is this the last straw? Actually, with how President Trump is shaking up the system — taking Nancy Pelosi’s advice to be a “disruptor” — probably not. But an executive order he signed today will perhaps ensure that we don’t have our last straw. That is, our last plastic one. The order…

  • By Selwyn Duke It’s easy to call warnings about artificial intelligence (AI) “sensationalism.” (So many things today are, after all.) In fact, when I told a “terrified” ex-AI researcher on X yesterday that I was writing a story about the alarm he sounded and had questions for him, another respondent — an author, it turns…

  • By Selwyn Duke First there were the Biden family pardons; then there were the pardons of the J6 political prisoners. Joining the latter now, though, may be another case where the unjustly convicted would be absolved from guilt. It’s high time, too, as this condemned party has spent almost a generation in the pokey of…

  • By Selwyn Duke In another example of the all-consuming fires of wokeness, it has been revealed that authorities spent millions of dollars the last two years incorporating “indigenous knowledge” into California’s wildfire-mitigation policies. What could possibly go wrong? What already has, apparently.

  • By Selwyn Duke Back in 2005, while explaining why so few women occupied top science positions, economist Lawrence Summers suggested it could partially have to do with “issues of intrinsic aptitude.” It was one reason why he was forced from his Harvard presidency position the next year. And if this standard still holds today, a…

  • By Selwyn Duke “The temperature is rising!” “The temperature is dropping.” The temperature is staying the same.” We argue the “facts” of climate change (even as parts of New Jersey were just buried under 11 inches of global warming). One side wants the facts to show that man is disrupting the climate, while the other…

  • By Selwyn Duke “Like other drugs, vaccines require a long testing process to see whether they indeed protect people from disease, and do so safely.” So related an MD writing at the liberal Atlantic magazine in February 2020 — early in the Covid “pandemic.” The Atlantic also announced that a “vaccine won’t stop the new coronavirus.” It…

  • By Selwyn Duke In 2013, astrobiologist Jack O’Malley-James predicted that visible life on Earth would end due to too little atmospheric CO2. No, that’s not a typo. The gas’ levels will ultimately decline over time (the dinosaur age saw levels five to 10 times today’s), O’Malley-James explained. Eventually, they’ll drop so low that plants won’t be able…