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
Science writer Matt Ridley caused quite the stir when he published The Myth of Basic Science, arguing that the bulk of scientific discovery came from technological innovation – and rarely from government. Naturally, Ridley’s argument sent a million lab-coated troughers into a fit of the screaming mee-mees. But, much as
James Scott University of Otago NASA’s Perseverance rover successfully touched down on Mars this morning, and has already begun beaming back images. But people might be surprised to learn there have been another 48 missions to the red planet so far. Of these, more than half failed at stages
I once had the dubious pleasure of being harangued by an elderly hippy about “Nibiru”, the supposed mysterious planet that was going to collide with the Earth in the next year. That was several years ago, so I can chalk that up to yet another end-of-the-world that I’ve survived.
