Science
Wuhan Lab Leak Theory: Why Is This Even a Controversial Statement?
Simon Black sovereignman.com Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the Founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur, and a free man. His daily e-letter, Notes from the Field, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more freedom,
Electric Power Fantasies Are Lining Up
David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. Seems like every big policy gun wants to take a shot at fantasizing the decarbonization and electrification of the energy system. No doubt that is where the government policy
The Disgraceful New Zealand Royal Society
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The New Zealand Royal Society continues to disgrace its British parent body’s prescribed rationale of absolute respect for factual scientific evidence, every time it touches on Maori issues Its latest unadulterated nonsense, published over the heading “New Research Shows Maori Travelled to the Antarctic
The COVID-19 Lab-Leak Hypothesis Is Plausible Because Accidents Happen. I Should Know
Allen Rodrigo University of Auckland For almost 20 years, Allen Rodrigo worked on the molecular evolution of viruses, including HIV and Hepatitis B. His lab was involved in the development of computational methods for analysing the evolutionary history of viruses, including the timing of virus origins. He has been the
Leaked Video Shows Live Bats at WIV
The cloud of circumstantial evidence around the “lab-leak” theory refuses to dissipate – and just got darker. From the beginning of the pandemic, there were accusations that the virus causing COVID-19 resulted from a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That directly contradicted official claims that the virus emerged
Do Aliens Exist? We Asked Five Experts
Chynthia Wijaya Noor Gillani The Conversation Before joining The Conversation, Chynthia worked in video production and editing, freelancing for Vice Australia and the Museum of Chinese Australian History. Before joining The Conversation, Noor worked as a regional reporter with Seven West Media and News Corp. Prior to that, she freelanced
COVID Origins: A Timeline of Theories – Part 1
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. Has there ever been a
Early to Rise? It Depends on What ‘Early’ Means to You
If you’ve ever experienced or known someone with depression, you’ll be familiar with the endless lying in bed. It’s not laziness or “drama”: it’s just the soul-crushing impossibility of emerging and facing another grind through a grey world. New research suggests that that’s just part
T.Rex Was Quite the Little Nipper
As I wrote recently, Tyrannosaurus Rex was slower and yet way scarier than we might have thought. Now, they just got even scarier. Contrary to the Jurassic Park image of the sprinting, solitary behemoth, new evidence suggests that Tyrannosaurs were likely much slower, but a much more dogged pursuer. Worse,
Dogs: It’s in Their Nature
Nature or nurture? It’s a long-running debate: do our genes matter more than our environment? Is ancestry more important than upbringing? The politically-correct answer, currently, is nurture, all the way. After all, pretending that we’re anything other than a tabula rasa at birth raises some alarming possibilities for
King Tut’s Coffin Is on the Move
When you think of Tutankhamun, you almost certainly picture his fabulous, solid gold and lapis lazuli death mask. But that mask was but the innermost of layers upon layers of coffins and sarcophagi which housed the pharaoh’s remains. Tutankhamun’s tomb was in fact something like a Russian Matryoshka
Australia’s Big-Arsed Dinosaur
Like most boys, I was absolutely fascinated by dinosaurs. But I never really grew out of that fascination. For a long time, in high school, I aspired to be a paleontologist. I went on fossil digs in my school holidays. My prize discovery was the massive femur of a Diprotodon,
Govt Lies and Hyperbole on Climate Change
Owen Jennings Former National President of Federated Farmers Yesterday Prime Minster Ardern claimed that action on the Climate Commission’s recommendations was “a matter of life and death”. There is zero truth in that statement. It is outrageous and dangerous. All the evidence shows that climate-related deaths – both from heat