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Why the National Party Must Crush “Carbon Zero”

Why the National Party Must Crush “Carbon Zero”

We now have evidence that will enable National Party spokespeople in Parliament to expose the anti-social and cost-crippling changes that the Green Party wants to inflict on New Zealanders, and I look forward to Oral Questions in Parliament by either or both Barbara Kuriger (energy) and Stuart Smith (climate change)

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A Precious Chunk of Space Is on Its Way to Earth

A Precious Chunk of Space Is on Its Way to Earth

Despite the fact that the Earth is naturally constantly bombarded with extra-terrestrial matter (as much as one hundred kilograms of space dust and meteorites is estimated to fall on the Earth each day), the amount of “space rocks” brought back to Earth by human endeavour is incredibly small. Less than

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Seeing Through the Wood for the Glass

Seeing Through the Wood for the Glass

I’ve never been much of a Star Trek fan. I thoroughly disliked didactism in entertainment from the moment Sesame Street tried to force me to learn the alphabet in an American accent. Bugger that, bring me the afternoon cartoons and the adult amorality of Bugs Bunny and crew. So,

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Florida Man Comes Through at Last!

Florida Man Comes Through at Last!

Usually when we read the phrase “Florida man”, it’s followed by a head-scratching, hair-raising tale of debauchery and criminality, invariably involving drugs and unspeakable acts with alligators. But Miami’s Craig Hershoff is singlehandedly proving a welcome exception to “Florida Man”, while promising to benefit millions. For people who

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Time Crystals Hold Promise for Quantum Computing

Time Crystals Hold Promise for Quantum Computing

“Time crystals” sounds like some sort of wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey Dr Who nonsense. But they just might be very real – and very useful. They won’t fire up a sonic screwdriver, but they could potentially be used in quantum computers. Normal crystals might be termed “space crystals”: that is, they repeat their

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Re-Wiring the Brain — Literally

Clint Eastwood’s 1982 thriller, Firefox, is little remembered these days except as the namesake of the best web browser. The titular plot device of the movie was a super-advanced Soviet jet fighter, capable of flying at Mach 6 and controlled by thought. Which leads to an unintentionally amusing sequence

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Sunetra Gupta on Unprofessional Conduct of Pro-lockdown Scientists

Sunetra Gupta on Unprofessional Conduct of Pro-lockdown Scientists

covidplanb.co.nz Sunetra Gupta, a founding signatory of the Great Barrington Declaration, wrote for the Daily Mail. Here is an edited set of excerpts. I was utterly unprepared for the onslaught of insults, personal criticism, intimidation and threats that met our proposal. The level of vitriol and hostility, not

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Nine COVID Facts

Nine COVID Facts

Jeff Harris ronpaulinstitute.org Ever since the alleged pandemic erupted this past March the mainstream media has spewed a non-stop stream of misinformation that appears to be laser-focused on generating maximum fear among the citizenry. But the facts and the science simply don’t support the grave picture painted of

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Dogs Really Are Our Closest Animal Friends

Dogs Really Are Our Closest Animal Friends

I have often argued that scientists and philosophers of the mind who turn to the great apes to compare with human minds are making a fundamental error. While the apes are genetically related to us, our evolutionary paths have diverged for millions of years. Millions of years in which apes

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The James Delingpod Podcast: Dr Mike Yeadon

The James Delingpod Podcast: Dr Mike Yeadon

delingpole.podbean.com Dr Mike Yeadon has a degree in biochemistry and toxicology, a research-based PhD in respiratory pharmacology, has spent over 30 years leading new medicines research in the pharmaceuticals industry, and founded his own biotech company which he sold to the world’s biggest drug company Novartis in

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Transgender Regret Grows – but You’re Not Allowed to Know About It

Transgender Regret Grows – but You’re Not Allowed to Know About It

Science is in a largely unspoken crisis. From the all-but-broken peer-review system to “replication crisis” (many published studies are either never being repeated by other researchers, or, when they do, their results cannot be replicated), science is spiralling into a nadir that the “IFL Science” crowd will never admit to.

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John Snow vs The Lancet

John Snow vs The Lancet

John Snow was an English physician, born in 1813, who is considered the father of epidemiology. He traced a cholera outbreak in London in 1854 to a specific water source and convinced the local council to remove the water pump’s handle. The people who passed for scientists in John

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The Earth’s Climate Is a Truly Wonderful Thing

John Rofe After 15 years of trying to figure out whether the “Warming Alarmists” or the “Climate Change Deniers” are right, I have concluded that the causes of climate change are almost totally natural…solar variability on the one hand (because the sun provides 99.9% of Earth’s energy)

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How Deadly Is COVID-19?

How Deadly Is COVID-19?

Sebastian Rushworth M.D. Health and medical information grounded in science sebastianrushworth.com September 2020 was the least deadly month in Swedish history, in terms of the number of deaths per 100,000 population. Ever. And I don’t mean the least deadly September, I mean the least deadly month.

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