Climate causes coffee prices to be at a "50-year high", claims The New York Times —if you ignore inflation Peak early-2025 coffee was actually cheaper than peaks in 2011, 1997, 1994, 1986, and 1977 Peak early-2025 coffee was cheaper than average of 1960-1985

The University of Nebraska has debunked out the misleading narrative on cow burps & methane on climate change: “They have not accounted for the capture part, they only account for methane being released. Carbon capture in soil and grass - helped out by cow grazing and manure -

Eyeglasses aren’t opioids. There’s no reason we should need to see an optometrist to buy glasses. You don’t in the rest of the world, and you didn’t in the US either until optometrists lobbied aggressively under the banner of “public safety.” For decades, opticians, trained with

If parks, forests, and other government-run land were turned over to private owners, such as conservation organizations, we might see improvements in the kinds of experiences users of gov't lands most desire. My article Mises Institute: mises.org/mises-wire/bur… PERC Jonathan H. Adler

In response to "fact checkers," Facebook last year banned The Epoch Times for saying arctic sea ice wasn't declining. But The Epoch Times was right. Even The Guardian now admits it. Mark Zuckerberg Mark Zuckerberg — you owe an apology to everyone you censored.

Yet another paper has been published in Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) highlighting that the rate of sea ice loss in the Arctic has slowed over the last 20 years. 🗨️ “𝑂𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑠, 𝐴𝑟𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑠𝑒𝑎 𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑

4 out of 5 Harvard doctors fail an introductory statistics question Expertise is real, but most "experts" are shockingly innumerate

Reich is mocking “trickle down” while ignoring the obvious: the last 25 years of innovation, investment, and wealth creation have showered benefits on ordinary people at a scale unmatched in history. Smartphones in every pocket with free GPS, camera, and global communication.

Williamson Evers on the escalation from the heckler's veto to blotting out a life to silence speech. independent.org/article/2025/0… Independent Institute

Wofford is the top ranked college in SC, in the WSJ's 2026 ranking. Also ranked in SC are Clemson, Furman, USC, College of Charleston, Bob Jones University, and Coastal Carolina University. Wofford College wsj.com/us-news/educat… The Wall Street Journal

LLMs put into competition with each other, and told to be honest, discover that lying often works better to achieve engagement or persuasion How about if we flood childhood with chatbots, as we did with social media, before we know what they will do to children?

Minimum wage in action

Here's another example of overprotection in the real world: banning peanuts from schools caused kids antifragile immune systems to develop improperly, leading to peanut allergies, as Greg Lukianoff and I wrote about. (Meanwhile no protections online)

Join me, Surgery Center of OK, Caitlin Long 🔑⚡️🟠, Timothy Terrell, and Ryan McMaken in OKC in February!

Dr. @TimothyTerrell explains why returning land to private owners, guided by prices and responsibility, yields healthier parks and forests.