When the nascent green movement made Tasmania’s Lake Pedder the cause célèbre for their anti-development ethos, the alleged fate of an obscure fish, the Lake Pedder Galaxias was one of their chief whipping-boys. Isolated to a single habitat – Lake Pedder, obviously – for thousands of years, the fish was said
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com In the last two years, we have been repeatedly told to Trust the Science, usually when applied to the Covid injections or to masks and lockdowns. No one defined or explained what “the science” was; nor were we allowed to question
Daniel Nebert, MD cfact.org Dr. Nebert is professor emeritus in the Department of Environmental & Public Health Sciences at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and in the Department of Pediatrics & Molecular Developmental Biology (Division of Human Genetics), at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. As a physician-scientist (and paediatrician)
In his autobiography, Gene Krantz writes that, in the depths of the political division of 1968, the Apollo program was a rare light of something Americans could take pride in. This was not true of all Americans, of course: race-baiting activists like Gil Scott-Heron still managed to bitch about Whitey’
G. Owen Schaefer Assistant Professor in Biomedical Ethics National University of Singapore In the four years since an experiment by disgraced scientist He Jiankui resulted in the birth of the first babies with edited genes, numerous articles, books and international commissions have reflected on whether and how heritable genome editing
More and more in recent years, we have been relentlessly finger-wagged, brow-beaten and lectured by our self-appointed “betters” to just shut up and listen to “the experts”. Concerned that banks are lending too much money to people who can clearly never pay it back? Shut up, the experts have spoken:
BREAKING: Lead author of peer reviewed research re-analysing Pfizer & Moderna trials on mRNA vaccine @JosephFraiman calls for immediate suspension of jab due to serious harms. ‘We have conclusive evidence that the vaccines are inducing sudden cardiac death’ This is huge ? pic.twitter.com/bS3A1ui561 — Dr Aseem Malhotra (@DrAseemMalhotra) January
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
Andy Weiss Caitlin Murdoch Vanderbilt University Andy was born and raised in Germany and received his diploma, the German MS degree, from Dresden University of Technology. Caitlin grew up on Merritt Island, a barrier island on Florida’s Space Coast. After receiving her BS in Microbiology from the University of
Tim Vernimmen knowablemagazine.org Tim Vernimmen is a freelance science journalist based near Antwerp, Belgium. His own adolescence theoretically ended in 2010. Adolescence is often portrayed as a period of struggle and friction, filled to the brim with exhilarating ups and depressing downs. Young people’s behavior tends to be
Elizabeth Preston knowablemagazine.org Elizabeth Preston is a freelance science journalist who lives in the Boston area with her husband and two small, vigilant primates. On dry nights, the San hunter-gatherers of Namibia often sleep under the stars. They have no electric lights or new Netflix releases keeping them awake.
William West mercatornet.com William West is a Sydney journalist. In April 2022 new tests on the Shroud of Turin – believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ – dated it to the first century. This dating contradicted a 1980s carbon dating that suggested the Shroud was from
Roberto Silvestro Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC) Roberto Silvestro is a PhD candidate enrolled in the biology program at the University of Quebec in Chicoutimi and the University of Quebec in Montreal. In 2019, He got a merit scholarship for foreign students provided by the Fonds de recherche du
Jenefer Metcalfe mercatornet.com Jenefer Metcalfe is a Lecturer in Biomedical Egyptology, University of Manchester One hundred years ago, our understanding of ancient Egypt changed forever when the tomb of King Tutankhamun was found on November 4, 1922 in the Valley of Kings. Born around 1305BC, Tutankhamun only ruled Egypt
OpenAI has trained a model called ChatGPT to interact in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction in
?Cristy Burne particle.scitech.org.au Perth-based Cristy loves to inspire creativity, daring and resilience in her readers. She has worked as a science writer and presenter in Switzerland, the US, UK, Japan and South Africa. Cristy’s books are published in three languages and five countries. You’re stuffed
