Industrialism Is Bad for Our Health: The Series Continues
New studies shed more unflattering light on the impact of modern diets on health.
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Deadly Fungus Infections Rising Even as Doctors Keep Missing Them
Why you need to push your doctor hard to include fungus infection as a possible diagnosis for mystery ailments.
Read more...Artificial Intelligence and Your Health – Thoughts on Virtual You: How Building Your Digital Twin Will Revolutionize Medicine and Change Your Life
Virtual You is (supposedly) coming! Should you embrace it or run the other way?
Read more...Science-Based Medicine: Sometimes “n = 1” Is Enough
An example of how, in science, pursuing the exceptions can prove more insight than following what seems to be a settled theory.
Read more...Where the ‘Wood-Wide Web’ Narrative Went Wrong
The three of us have studied forest fungi for our whole careers, and even we were surprised by some of the more extraordinary claims surfacing in the media about the wood-wide web. Thinking
Read more...Our Disappearing Shoreline
A brief look at the process of shoreline erosion.
Read more...Rochelle Walensky: Not With a Bang but a Puddle of Tears
We had low expecations for Rochelle Walensky and she underperformed. A partial catalogue of the damage she did.
Read more...Peanut Butter Is a Liquid
The matter of what is a liquid has made the news…..
Read more...KLG: When Science Becomes Embroiled in Conflict
Who are these scientists and what are their motivations? The default position of the powers-that-be has been to view scientists as disinterested seekers of the truth of the natural world. However, scientists and their patrons who are “science adjacent” can be anything but disinterested.
Read more...Philip Zelikow and the Covid Crisis Group’s “Lessons from a Covid War”: A Pre-Review
It may be that a book is as close as we will come to a Truth and Reconcilation Commission on the Covid pandemic. Will that be enough?
Read more...Berenson: Moderna Falsely Said No Serious Adverse Vaccine Effects in Phase 2 Trial; Their Own Data Says Otherwise
Finally a smoking gun on Covid vaccine injuries? Alex Berenson may have found one in Moderna’s own data.
Read more...Hoisted From Comments: “A Tale of Two Sciences”
Pontius Pilate asked, “What is truth?” Time to ask “What is science?” since our market system creates sciences that aren’t very scientific.
Read more...Amid Efforts to Cool the Planet, Solar Geoengineering Draws Heated Debate
Geoengineering schemes are getting more press as CO2 levels keep rising. But how can their risks be assessed?
Read more...Vaccine Effectiveness and Scientific Communication During COVID-19
Scientists and public health officials didn’t do a great job of explaining Covid vaccine efficacy. Laziness? Arrognace? Obfusction?
Read more...How Does SARS-CoV-2 Cause Disease? A Current Report
A new paper recaps what the more solid studies have found about how SARS-CoV-2 does harm.
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