It’s an old conspiracy theory trope that “black money” in the US military budget is secretly funnelled to… well, whatever the pet conspiracy theory happens to be. It’s taken as a given that contractors gouging the military budget is a front for more sinister operations. As grouchy alter
It’s a common trope in science fiction battles: nukes are the ultimate weapon. Even in space. Even when the reactor in a spaceship blows up, as happens in Alien, it creates a devastating blast that rushes through space, shaking and rattling the escaping crew already hundreds of kilometres away.
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The headline “Southland scientist takes on challenge of tying science to te ao Maori” caught my attention so despite my good intentions, I read on … Scientist Dr Theresa Pankhurst has been awarded the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research’s inaugural Te Urungi Fellowship, established by its Maori advisory group. Her
Steven Taylor knowablemagazine.org Information Opinion In early 2019, months before the world had heard of Covid-19, I finished writing a book titled The Psychology of Pandemics: Preparing for the Next Global Outbreak of Infectious Disease. The first publisher rejected it, dismissing it as “an interesting book that no one
David Thunder mercatornet.com David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society. A significant part of the world has by now accepted that Covid-19 is part of the normal cycle of flus and colds and, as such, should not be
Martin Kulldorff brownstone.org Martin Kulldorff, senior scholar of Brownstone Institute, is an epidemiologist and biostatistician specialising in infectious disease outbreaks and vaccine safety. He is the developer of Free SaTScan, TreeScan and RSequential software. Most recently, he was professor at the Harvard Medical School for 10 years. Co-author of
Carla Peeters brownstone.org Carla Peeters is founder and managing director of COBALA Good Care Feels Better. Warning Long read: 1596 words Since the pandemic, young children are dealing with a mysterious increase in disease. Some may even have doubled in frequency, varying from infectious diseases, mental diseases (anxiety, depression,
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One of the most vexed issues of the Covid pandemic has been vaccinations. The great pity of this all is that the political wagon-circling has hopelessly obscured any possibility of a dispassionate evaluation of the efficacy or otherwise of one of the biggest vaccinations roll-outs in history. If anything is
Scott Atlas brownstone.org Scott W. Atlas, M.D., is the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in health care policy at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University and a fellow at Hillsdale College’s Academy for Science and Freedom. It was February 2020 and news accounts had been describing increasingly alarming
Scarlet Davis particle.scitech.org.au Lover of all thing’s science and theatre, Scarlet combines her two passions across her freelance work. From science writing to script writing, they enjoy putting pen to paper to share their enthusiasm with the world. Also, a trained performer and theatre maker, you
Throughout the pandemic, the constant refrain from the ruling elite and their hangers-on and camp-followers has been “trust the science”. The only problem is that “the science” increasingly isn’t science. Instead, it’s a corrupted, broken system of groupthink, cronyism and willfully blind ideology. The problems with “science” so-called,
Guy Hatchard hatchardreport.com Dr Guy Hatchard 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 PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. Warning Long Read. 1412 words. In
Guy Hatchard hatchardreport.com Dr Guy Hatchard 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 PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. Information Opinion Warning Long Read. 1350
Dr Guy Hatchard hatchardreport.com Dr Guy Hatchard 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 PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. If you are a science
