It’s something we all learn in high school biology: plants “breathe in” carbon dioxide and release oxygen. Animals breathe in oxygen and expel carbon dioxide. The only problem is that that isn’t the whole story. Nothing in nature is 100% clear-cut or efficient. Humans (and other animals) don’
Since the beginning of the Wuhan Pandemic, the big question has been: just how bad is it? From the very first, answers became rapidly polarised between absolute conviction that it was a death sentence on par with the Spanish Flu or the Black Death, and handwaving dismissal as “just like
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
Shane Cronin Professor of Earth Sciences University of Auckland The Kingdom of Tonga exploded into global news on January 15 last year with one of the most spectacular and violent volcanic eruptions ever seen. Remarkably, it was caused by a volcano that lies under hundreds of metres of seawater. The
Are there sparkly vampires in Strachan, Tasmania? In Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight books, the bedazzled bloodsuckers of the Cullen family set up home in the Pacific Northwest town of Forks because the town experiences rain on an average 212 days of the year. Tasmanians likewise say that, in Strachan, on
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.
