Reich’s genome-wide association study (GWAS) indicates that West Eurasians have increased or reduced their vulnerability to a variety of ailments. Genetic changes have rendered them less susceptible to leprosy, rheumatoid…
Category: Science
Would You Trust The National Academies Of Science To Tell You How Science Works?
That’s just completely wrong. We absolutely have a way of “establishing causation” — or at least of progressively ruling out causes other than our hypothesized cause — which is by…
True, Mother Jones, Polar Bears Are More Adaptable Than Alarmists Have Claimed
Mother Jones is one of the premier climate alarmist websites, so it is refreshing, even somewhat surprising, to see it publish any good news at all, even if the good…
Three Radical Ideas to Reform the Scientific Enterprise
But when you get a little closer and scrutinize science’s innards, you realize that it’s not exactly a well-oiled machine – far from it. The engine is noisy, inefficient, and…
British Intelligence Goes Full Guardian Promoting Untestable Computer-Generated Scares of Eco-System Collapse
This ridiculous scare alone gives us an idea about what is going on here. Humans affect the environment they live in, as do all species, but political extremists are given…
Climate Change is Not Causing Mass Extinctions, Says Bombshell Royal Society Paper
All these political acts are committed under a ‘settled’ climate science directive that allows scares to be invented seemingly to unquestioning order. When English Test cricket used to regularly shut…
The Problem with ‘Peer Review’
The truth of ‘peer review’ was that it was the means by which bureaucratic controls were imposed, indeed, self-imposed, on intellectual activity. That is it.
Human Evolution: ‘Our Ultimate Fate Comes Down to… Three Possibilities’
Like the cornucopia of different creatures inhabiting Charles Darwin’s beloved Galapagos Islands, humans dwelling on different bodies within the solar system could similarly evolve “endless forms most beautiful and most…
Models & Lab Studies
If you want to determine how well a particular medicine works, what’s the worst possible type of study you can do?
The Trump Administration’s Fight To Fund Scientists
“If the universities truly believe that it takes 60-70% of a research grant to provide facilities, utilities, and other basic support, then that is easy to prove by opening the…
Why Molecular Biology Labs Are Almost Always Stocked With Salmon Sperm DNA
fun fact – DNA was originally isolated from salmon sperm. Swiss physician and biologist Friedrich Miescher accomplished the feat in 1869, dubbing his discovery “nuclein.” Salmon sperm was at the…
How a PNAS Study Confuses Institutional Authority with Truth
What the paper actually demonstrates—despite its intentions—is that institutional authority no longer guarantees attention. Users are selective. They are skeptical. They are increasingly uninterested in being told what is true…
Nature Has “Abandoned Science for Social Justice” Says Richard Dawkins
Top scientific journal Nature has “abandoned science for social justice”, Richard Dawkins has said as he backed a letter written by Chemistry Professor Anna Krylov which accused the journal of “social engineering”.…
Sugar is Sugar is Sugar — Part 2
Villainizing HFCS is an outgrowth of the more general War on Sugar. Acting under the pretense (or misunderstanding) that HFCS is “high” in fructose, a great deal of research has…
Sugar is Sugar is Sugar — Part 1
“High-fructose corn syrup ‘is just a formula for making you obese and diabetic,’ RFK Jr. has said.” [ source ] That’s the narrative in the Wild and Wacky World of…
The Pitfalls of Observational Studies
Does poverty cause crime? Or does crime cause poverty? Or do they feed off one other in a vicious cycle? Or does another factor or a combination of other factors…
Why Trump‘s ‘Gold Standard’ Executive Order is Essential to Restoring Truth in Science
The path forward is clear: federal agencies must adopt rigorous, transparent and falsifiable standards to ensure that science serves truth, not power. Critics may decry the order as political overreach,…
Defund The National Academy of Sciences!
“It is galling that the leadership of the institution makes that kind of money,” says one senior program officer with a decade of experience at the institution. I can’t think…
Trump’s Science Reform Sparks Outrage: Why Activists Cry ‘Hitler’ Over Rigorous Research Standards
There is nothing out of the ordinary in the order to those immersed in the traditional scientific process and without an ideological axe to grind. But in the climate sphere…