If you think companies are bad, wait until you see the unbounded havoc nonprofits can wreak.

Richard Ebright: "It all falls together. We know what they were doing in the years preceding 2019. We know what they proposed to do in 2019. We knew how they proposed and where they proposed to do it...It is exactly what the virus' emergence tells us." yahoo.com/news/blame-fau…

'The full legacy of lockdown is beginning to emerge, with some of the nation's most vulnerable children hardest hit.' Many of us made our concerns abundantly clear at the time. We were hounded and abused.

Maybe we don't want the type of talent that refuses to work in a field where there is independent oversight and rigorous investigation in the event of a plausible lab leak.

Forrester describes how this already binding system of fines on UK-based carmakers, which he describes as "much more aggressive than in other Western countries", will lead to the "rationing" of petrol and diesel cars as the ban approaches. Prices will soar, he predicts, as low

wbur.org/onpoint/2024/0… Alina a clear winner. Opponent, JP Moore claims nat'l origin "inherently reasonable". Zoonoses are common, as he says (ie from spillover); but pandemics are not. He claims SARS approached being pandemic. That is false - it lacks "stealth" characteristics.

Probably the shortest and best obituary of the IRA Army Council's Martin McGuinness - awarded State Funeral Honours by the Catholic Bishop of Derry, Donal McKeown...

John Fowles explains in "The Aristos" (1964) how high IQ can subvert your will to act: "High intelligence leads to multiplicity of interest and a sharpened capacity to foresee the consequences of any action. Will is lost in a labyrinth of hypothesis." Rule 1: Do not lose the will

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In case you think it's an exaggeration to say that the paramount priority of Western elites is to control the flow of speech and information on the internet, listen to the supremely German authoritarian EU President, Ursula Ursula von der Leyen, say it explicitly and at length:

DURC-PEPP research has become a scientific curiosity because of government funding. If there is a basic science question that can only be addressed by DURC-PEPP research, then the PI, research institution, and funding agency must make a compelling public health justification and

Infants used to have a higher risk of dying than 80-year-olds— Infancy used to be an extremely dangerous time of life. As the chart shows, around 20% of girls in Sweden died before their first birthday in the 18th century. This was higher than the risk among 80-year-olds — at

So you can be jailed for between 18-36 months for a tweet ( with Starmer cheering from the back of the court) but if you pay £1,500 and then view 41 pornographic images of children, 2 aged between 7-9, a suspended sentence is all that’s handed down. Not a peep from Starmer.

Shrinking islands, vanishing polar bears, collapsing coral reefs – the media loves a good climate scare story. There's just one problem, says Bjorn Lomborg: all of these have turned out to be false. dailysceptic.org/2024/09/16/cli…

It's hard to imagine a more dangerous case of fraud than privately believing the pandemic likely resulted from a preventable human accident, but then publishing the opposite conclusion and sabotaging investigations. I fear the long-term damage to trust in science will be severe.

Seven years ago I wrote this about electric cars: "Perhaps we should leave this to the market. The great merit of private enterprise is that it reduces the cost of learning by putting a limit to the extent of the hazard of any particular adventure. One company gambles, and takes

One of the very weak arguments I have heard a lot from people who think that SARS-CoV-2 had a natural origin in a Wuhan market is that it couldn't have come from the Wuhan Institute of Virology because if they had anything like CoV-2 in the lab they would have published it and we