One of the major problems with solar power is not just its cost – both financial (which is usually hidden by massive, market-distorting government subsidies) and environmental (likewise conveniently hidden away in the Chinese boonies) – but its unreliability. The simple fact is that the sun doesn’t shine all the time.
Today in Things That Didn’t Age Well: the great foot-and-mouth scare of ’01, starring a very familiar face. Australia is rushing specialist veterinarians to Britain as countries across the world move to contain the catastrophic outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease that began there. And amid warnings that Australia could lose
Marc Grey In a previous article, the various COVID vaccines coming to New Zealand were discussed. While examining the mRNA (Pfizer) vaccine it was stated that: …it is RNA, it can be used immediately by the cell’s molecular machinery to make the protein (so does not enter the cell
Maureen Ferran Rochester Institute of Technology Maureen Ferran earned her M.S. and Ph.D in Genetics from the University of Connecticut, where she studied how viruses evade the host immune response. She then went to the Laboratory of Viral Genetics within the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
21st century wire ronpaulinstitute.org This is undoubtedly one of the most extraordinary stories of the entire ‘global pandemic’ which has turned the world upside down over the twelve months. In an article published by Lockdown Skeptics by Derek Winton entitled, The Imperial Model and its Role in the UK’
As I’ve written elsewhere, Mars has exercised a hold on the collective imagination quite unlike any other planet for the past couple of centuries. Until space probes in the mid-60s first showed us that it is a hostile, frozen, barren desert world, Mars was the paradigmatic home of intelligent
I’ve written before about my “Lushy’s Laws”: a critical-thinking guide to not being fooled by the media. The first and second laws are: Never believe a headline; and when an article claims, “science says…” or “new study shows…”, assume that it doesn’t, until proven otherwise. So when
The Star Trek science fiction universe is a particular favourite of internet socialists. Partly that’s because of its ever-woker story-lines (Star Trek: Discovery, I’m looking at you), but mostly because of its “no money and all our stuff for free” utopia. But, tellingly, to realise such a utopia,
Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research. He is the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and nine books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of
Jenin Younes aier.org Jenin Younes is a graduate of Cornell University and New York University School of Law. Jenin currently works as an appellate public defender in New York City. She enjoys running, restaurants, and reading in her free time. This past year has given rise to some strange
Dr. Joseph Mercola articles.mercola.com Dr. Joseph Mercola is the founder of Mercola.com. An osteopathic physician, best-selling author and recipient of multiple awards in the field of natural health, his primary vision is to change the modern health paradigm by providing people with a valuable resource to help
I’ve recently written about a startup tech company that aims to manufacture artificial meat by fermenting CO2. While the vegans can keep their fake meat, at least the technology seems like a promising addition to the suite of engineering solutions to human CO2 emissions. Certainly, if you believe the
The flurry of media and social media interest that greeted news of the landing of the Perseverance rover (and, incidentally, Ingenuity, the first helicopter on Mars) shows the enduring fascination that the Red Planet exercises over the popular imagination. The endless fascination with Mars seems strangely contrary to that of
Dear Ashley Bloomfield and PM Jacinda Ardern, Whenever we, as the New Zealand public, receive information from the Beehive or the Ministry of Health or from scholars, it is always touted that our authorities or esteemed scholars are following the science to keep us safe, and obviously we would like
