The relics business can be a weird one. The fad for relics of Christian saints led to the preservation of the supposed remains of everything from Jesus’ foreskin and Mary’s breast milk, to the tongue and jaw of St. Anthony. Lest you think that’s all just religious nuttiness,
Dr Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior
I recently reported how a scientist who spent 100 days in an underwater habitat came out of the experience “10 years younger”. That is, certain biological changes, particularly in his chromosomes, effectively reversed his biological clock. But, if living under the sea might extend your life, living in space may
Robert Kogon Robert Kogon is a pen name for a widely-published financial journalist, a translator, and researcher working in Europe. brownstone.org German scientists have uncovered startling evidence that a substantial portion of the batches of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine deployed in the European Union may in fact have consisted
For the last few years, we’ve been constantly hectored to ‘Follow The Science™’. Purely coincidentally, no doubt, The Science™ has an uncanny habit of dovetailing exactly with whatever the latest lefty intellectual fad might be. That’s because The Science™ is not science. But even science ain’t what
Sure, the idea of a space elevator just sounds too stupid to be true. But then, people once said the same thing about satellites. When Arthur C Clarke first proposed the idea of communications satellites, newspapers smirked and asked what would hold them up. As it happens, ol’ Arfur was
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com “We’re never going to comply our way out of tyranny… You can only speak up.” Dr Cindy de Villiers, GP During the Covid pandemic, New Zealand was ushered into a front-row seat where the feature presentation starred fear and uncertainty.
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com “It is never appropriate to force a population to have an experimental medical procedure.” ~Dr Alison Goodwin, GP A good doctor, a moral doctor, a doctor invested in upholding their professional ethics of First Do No Harm would tell you both
As the Labour government promises to throw yet more buckets of cash at New Zealand’s failing universities, no one appears to be giving much thought to whether or not it would be better to simply let them fail. Or, failing that, actively putting them out of their misery. Because
Debbie Lerman Debbie Lerman, 2023 Brownstone Fellow, has a degree in English from Harvard. She is a retired science writer and a practicing artist in Philadelphia, PA. brownstone.org Scandalous incompetence. Profound stupidity. Astounding errors. This is how many analysts – including Dr. Vinay Prasad, Dr. Scott Atlas, and popular Substack
Joanne Nova A prize-winning science graduate in molecular biology. She has given keynotes about the medical revolution, gene technology and aging at conferences. She hosted a children’s TV series on Channel Nine, and has done over 200 radio interviews, many on the Australian ABC. She was formerly an associate
David Thunder David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society in Pamplona, Spain, and a recipient of the prestigious Ramón y Cajal research grant (2017-2021, extended through 2023), awarded by the Spanish government to support outstanding research activities. brownstone.org
I frequently caution against taking so-called “social science” research with anything less than a Siberian grain of salt. Especially when its findings conveniently dovetail with one’s own prejudices. That said, some social science research is just too damned funny not to write about. Such as a Danish study that
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Dr Elena Bishop, MD trained in both the Soviet Union and the USA before starting her first job as a pathologist in New Zealand years ago. Having experienced the turmoil in Russia in the ’90s while a medical student, she was
Robert E Wright Robert E Wright is a Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. He is the (co)author or (co)editor of over two dozen major books, book series, and edited collections, including AIER’s The Best of Thomas Paine (2021) and Financial Exclusion (2019)
Update: In what I guess is a classic case of ‘Things that didn’t age well’, I wrote this post the very day the story of the lost Titanic submarine began to grip the world. Fortunately, as the following story shows, not all undersea adventures end in tragedy. In Disney’
