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The Use of Ivermectin and the Various Studies around Its Use

The Use of Ivermectin and the Various Studies around Its Use

Dr Pierre Kory is an ICU and lung specialist who is an expert on the use of the drug ivermectin to treat COVID-19. Bret Weinstein is an evolutionary biologist, visiting fellow at Princeton, host of the DarkHorse podcast and co-author ( with his wife Heather Heying) of the forthcoming “A Hunter-Gatherer’

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A Letter Sent to the Government Yesterday by NZDSOS

NZDSOS New Zealand Doctors Speaking out with Science NZDSOS is a group of doctors, dentists and scientists who are concerned about the safety of the roll-out of the Pfizer vaccine in New Zealand and the lack of balance in the information being presented. They have written polite, insistent, and repeated

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Why Would Genealogy Companies Protect Serial Killers?

Why Would Genealogy Companies Protect Serial Killers?

When one of the USA’s worst serial killers and rapists, who terrorised a state for decades, was finally caught, surely no one could object? But they have. Because the killer was caught using publicly available genealogy database technology. Now, not only are private companies refusing to cooperate with police,

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An Interstellar Case of Gas

An Interstellar Case of Gas

For a while there, some scientists thought we were about to lose Betelgeuse. Betelgeuse is an easy star to find in the Southern hemisphere summer: it’s the bright red star directly below the base of the “saucepan” (Orion). It’s one of the closest red supergiant stars to Earth.

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The Methuselahs of the Deep

The Methuselahs of the Deep

Coelacanths really are a remarkable fish. For decades, the species was only known by its fossils. Fossils that showed the fish had been around for a very, very long time. Coelacanths belong to a lineage of lobe-finned fishes – which are more closely related to tetrapods (amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals)

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Letter to the Editor: COVID Dishonesty

Letter to the Editor: COVID Dishonesty

Dear Editor I would like to thank you as one, or maybe the only, voice calling this wayward government to account. I am of the opinion that we are being lied to, or at the very least, our government are slaves to groupthink regarding the pandemic and the way forward.

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Killer Drones: That’ll End Well, I’m Sure

Killer Drones: That’ll End Well, I’m Sure

Australian author Sean McMullen’s Greatwinter novels are set in the post-apocalyptic wastelands of Victoria (no, not Melbourne in lockdown). There are no electrical machines because orbiting robotic battle satellites immediately vaporise any sign of electromagnetic activity. Dare to flick on the simplest circuit and instant, merciless death strikes from

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The End Is Nigh. In Other News

The End Is Nigh. In Other News

Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011 We were admonished on the blog by “Otway1” for our “seemingly deliberate scientific ignorance” because “[t]he evidence for anthropogenic (manmade) global warming driving climate change is overwhelming.” I

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Antarctic Trips by Maori 1000 Years Ago Ridiculed

Antarctic Trips by Maori 1000 Years Ago Ridiculed

Hobson’s Pledge Trust “Research” published by the New Zealand Royal Society that claimed Maori travelled to the Antarctic at least 1000 years before Europeans was ridiculed this week as unadulterated nonsense by straight-talking knight Sir Bob Jones. See Disgraceful NZ Royal Society The so-called “research” by a conservation biologist

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COVID Vaccines Revisited

Marc Grey In three previous articles various aspects of the novel covid vaccines were examined, While it was possible to discuss the design/formulation of them, we could essentially only speculate about what might happen with respect to adverse reactions and other risks. Now we are rolling out the vaccine

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Another Science Headline You Shouldn’t Believe

Another Science Headline You Shouldn’t Believe

As I’ve repeatedly warned: Never believe a headline. Especially a headline which makes an unbelievably exciting science claim. If it sounds unbelievable, that’s because it almost certainly is. Case in point: Nasa says newly discovered ‘weird’ planet with ‘unknown’ atmosphere is remarkably similar to Earth. A ‘weird’ planet

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Why NASA Shot Mouse Sperm Into Space

Why NASA Shot Mouse Sperm Into Space

Just what are astronauts getting up to, out there in space? The headline Sperm can survive in space for 200 years begs so many questions. If we shone a blacklight in the ISS would it look like a Jackson Pollock painting? As it turns out, the headline refers to, not

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Out for Blood in the Search to Stall Aging

Elie Dolgin knowablemagazine.org Out for Blood in the Search to Stall Aging A gaggle of biotech start-ups are trying vastly different approaches to spin animal studies into the next big anti-aging therapy. It’s too early to know which, if any, will succeed. By Elie Dolgin 5.6.2021

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COVID Origins: A Timeline of Theories – Part 2

COVID Origins: A Timeline of Theories – Part 2

Kelli Ballard libertynation.com National Correspondent at LibertyNation.com. Kelli Ballard is an author, editor, and publisher. Her writing interests span many genres including a former crime/government reporter, fiction novelist, and playwright. Originally a Central California girl, Kelli now resides in the Seattle area. Editor’s note: More than

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Discussing the Weather

Discussing the Weather

Chris Sellars I like to keep an eye on the weather as it’s handy to know which way the wind blows and if a hard rain is gonna fall. I am not qualified though. I don’t call myself an expert or a professional. I have been rained on

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