Humans remain endlessly fascinated by Mars. Still, notwithstanding Elon Musk’s grand dreams, our Red Planet neighbour currently remains a planet inhabited entirely by robots. Still, those robots are continuing to expand our knowledge of Mars. Including what were once its bodies of open water. Since landing on Mars in
Michael Cook Michael Cook is editor of Mercator. mercatornet.com It’s hard to find a better case study of how experts exploit the media and democratic procedures to advance unethical agendas than the push in the United Kingdom to create “embryo banks” for scientific research. This might seem like
So, is the ‘Crazy Cat Lady’ stereotype based in fact after all? A new review of the scientific literature suggests that it is. Which comes first, though, the cats or the crazy, is not so clear. A new review suggests that having a cat as a pet could potentially double
Kerri Duncan Kerri is an Adelaide-based freelance writer with a background in animal science and molecular biology. Always up for an investigative adventure, Kerri is addicted to exploring Earth’s wonders and finding as many waterfalls as possible. Her work in life sciences has deepened her appreciation of the
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Helen Petousis-Harris wrote a pandemic opinion piece It’s not the apocalypse, but yes, you should care, published on 20 February 2020. At this time, China – where around 30,000 deaths occur each day – had reported 2,121 Covid-related
Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Editor at Large of FEE.org at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org In March 2020, Dr. Robert Kadlec addressed a House committee to confirm his role and responsibilities as the federal government’s top preparedness official coordinating the government’s COVID-19
Michael Brown Michael is an observational astronomer who studies the evolution of galaxies over cosmic time. Michael’s research team has found that the most massive galaxies grow relatively slowly, and that the relationship between stellar mass and dark matter mass evolves very little over billions of years. lens.monash.
rutherford.org Charlottesville, Va. – In advance of a holiday season that could see record numbers of ancestry kits given as gifts, the Rutherford Institute is cautioning the public about the significant privacy risks associated with corporations, government agencies and hackers possibly gaining access to one’s familial DNA. As the
Rebekah Barnett Rebekah Barnett reports from Western Australia. She is a volunteer interviewer for Jab Injuries Australia and holds a BA in Communications from the University of Western Australia. Find her work on her Substack page, Dystopian Down Under. brownstone.org US-based genomics scientist Kevin McKernan says he has
The demise of the dinosaurs has long been a topic of intense fascination. Not least, it seems, because the realisation that dinosaurs had existed, and just what they were, nicely dovetailed with the Scientific Revolution. Having discovered that a host of gigantic ‘terrible lizards’ once thrived on Earth, the natural
Every time someone blithers about “resurrecting” an extinct species like the Tasmanian Tiger or the woolly mammoth, the first question we should ask is: why? The next, and probably most important, question should be: is it at all ethical? To paraphrase Jurassic Park, are these people too preoccupied with “could”
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Since our most recent comment on Michael Baker’s conflicts of interest, he has appeared in legacy media making further claims about boosters being needed to “help stem the tide of a fifth wave of the virus sweeping the country”. It
In Douglas Adams’ classic The Meaning of Liff, a glassel is defined as “A seaside pebble which was shiny and interesting when wet, and which is now a lump of rock, which children nevertheless insist on filing [sic] their suitcases with after the holiday.” Our house has more than its
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com It is an unpleasant truth that corruption in science has been present for decades. The editors of both the Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine contest to this, as does world-renowned epidemiologist, John Ioannidis. The need to back
We do not live in a just world. In a just world, Josef Mengele wouldn’t have died of old age in Brazil. In a just world, Mao wouldn’t have lived to a ripe and comfortable old age, either. And in a just world, Anthony Fauci would be in
As I wrote recently, the draft NZ science curriculum is an embarrassing crock, blatantly designed by the Long Marchers to keep students ignorant and indoctrinated. Hold our soy lattes, say Australian education bureaucrats. The Australian school science curriculum lacks breadth and depth, and provides little guidance to teachers about content,
