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Against the Wuhan Lab Theory

Against the Wuhan Lab Theory

It’s fair to say that David Cole is a contrarian. He first came to attention as a “Jewish Holocaust denier”. Which is untrue, of course: Cole was a revisionist who questioned some claims about the Holocaust, but never denied that it took place. Whatever the merits of his revisionism

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Antarctica Isn’t in a Hurry to Melt

Antarctica Isn’t in a Hurry to Melt

Antarctica has been ice-bound for the last 34 million years. During the preceding Eocene epoch (56 to 33.9mya), Antarctica was quite a pleasant place: summer temperatures around 25°C, with palm, conifer and beech forests. But Antarctica’s fate was sealed with the final breakup of the remnants of

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Not Quite the Generations of Mutants We Were Expecting

Not Quite the Generations of Mutants We Were Expecting

It’s been a stock trope of post-apocalyptic fiction since at least the late 1950s, when Walter M Miller published his classic A Canticle for Liebowitz. In Miller’s book, even a thousand years after a nuclear war, mutants like the two-headed Mrs Grales persist, like a nuclear Mark of

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Supermoon! Red Blood Lunar Eclipse! It’s All Happening at Once, but What Does That Mean?

Supermoon! Red Blood Lunar Eclipse! It’s All Happening at Once, but What Does That Mean?

Shannon Schmoll Michigan State University Shannon Schmoll has a PhD in astronomy and science education. Her dissertation was titled “Toward a Framework for Integrating Planetarium and Classroom Learning” and was aimed at better understanding how planetarium field trips can effectively fit into formal astronomy curriculum. The first lunar eclipse of

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How Old Is Britain’s Biggest Boner?

How Old Is Britain’s Biggest Boner?

Australia has long had a fascination with “Big” tourist attractions: the Big Pineapple, the Big Banana, the Big Merino (possibly popular with Kiwi tourists), the Big Gumboot (and Big Ugg Boots), even a Big Bogan. Australia also has a, not just big, but colossal, naked warrior holding a stick. “Marree

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Re-Examining the Shroud of Turin

Re-Examining the Shroud of Turin

Francis Phillips mercatornet.com A Catholic Scientist Champions the Shroud of Turin By Gerard Verschuuren, Sophia Institute Press, 2021, 240 pages People who read the title of this book will probably divide into two camps: those who already believe the piece of cloth known as the Holy Shroud and preserved

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Fact Check: Does George Christensen’s Bill Force Medical Intervention When There’s No Chance of Survival?

Dave Pellowe goodsauce.news Secretary of the “Reason Party”, Emma Sinclair, has presented a poor-performing video claiming to debunk George Christensen’s Children Born Alive Protection Bill. For context, the “Reason Party” was formerly called the “Australian Sex Party”, and was established in 2009 by Fiona Patten, the then CEO

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The Pillars of Transgender Medicine Are Shaking

The Pillars of Transgender Medicine Are Shaking

Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet Can you really be transgender at four years old? Matthew Stubbings, and wife Klara Jeynes, both 44, from the English city of Doncaster, believe so. Their “son” Stormy was born as a girl named Emerald. However, from 18 months

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Fraud Claims Levelled at Reef Scientists

BFD readers should be familiar with the saga of Professor Peter Ridd. Ridd, you may recall, was sacked by Queensland’s James Cook University after he spoke out about the poor quality of research used to justify claims that the Great Barrier Reef is being “killed by climate change”. Ridd’

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Making Monkeys Out of Us

Making Monkeys Out of Us

David Albert Jones mercatornet.com Professor David Albert Jones is Director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, Oxford; he was appointed in 2010. He is also a Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford University and Professor of Bioethics at St Mary’s University, Twickenham. A US-Chinese team of scientists have produced

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Say It Again: Lockdowns Don’t Work

Say It Again: Lockdowns Don’t Work

We at The BFD have been reporting it for over a year, now – and finally, the mainstream media are beginning, ever so slowly, to catch on. What I’m talking about is the now-undeniable evidence that lockdowns do not work. New Zealand’s ‘COVID Queen’ might like to boast that

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Maori Science? Without Writing?

Richard Treadgold climateconversation.org.nz Richard has studied climate change for over 17 years and operated the Climate Conversation Group* since 2004. He remains what he calls ‘a staunch climate amateur’ with much to learn. This article makes a rare foray away from climate change due to important local moves

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Physicist Steve Koonin Just Wants the Truth

Physicist Steve Koonin Just Wants the Truth

Like the great Richard Feynman, Steven Koonin is thoroughly, no-bullshit New York. Which makes it doubly odd that he was Barack Obama’s chief scientist. But if Koonin went along with his boss’s bullshit while Obama was in the White House, he’s certainly not holding back now. Koonin

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