“Of course, if AI can cure cancer, bravo. I’m all for it. But even with cancer cured, death will still arrive somehow.”

"That three of the oldest and best-known publications — Scientific American, Popular Science, and National Geographic — have all faced cutbacks in recent years surely points to something deeper afoot....

In a recent Opinion piece in The Guardian, David Relman discusses the origin of COVID-19 in the context of the Fauci hearing before Rand Paul's committee. The text overlooks scientific evidence, engag...

Forscher sind auf einen rätselhaften Zusammenhang gestossen – Menschen mit Krebs scheinen seltener an Demenz zu erkranken – und umgekehrt. Nun suchen sie nach einer Erklärung.

Das Asperger-Syndrom als psychiatrische Diagnose stammt aus der Nazizeit. Sollten wir sie überhaupt noch verwenden?

Gain-of-function fearmongering and blame gets the glitzy NYT visual treatment as Republicans weaponize the lab leak theory again in attacks on Dr. Anthony Fauci

Earlier this afternoon, my oldest boyhood friend, a distinguished international lawyer who received his doctorate at Cambridge, called me to share the tragic news that Jason Arday, the Black British a...

The former Cambridge professor suffered a relentless campaign of coverage against him. His death should teach us an important lesson about keeping a s...

Look at our blazing forests and parched cities. Green policies aren’t a ‘luxury’, and we can’t burn more oil and gas. People need the truth, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

PM has long history of speaking out on realities of global heating but political opponents remain unnmoved

Passive wealth gains increasingly matter more than earnings for one’s standing in society

The COVID-19 Origin Theory that Sabotaged Science and Society

Misinformation influences cognition—shaping memory, beliefs, attitudes, reasoning, and decision-making. While intentionally disseminated misinformatio…

Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year

The failure to respond to decades of scientific evidence regarding climate change is examined through the lens of free market fundamentalism and the systematic loathing of government intervention. Thi...

Pacing oder Brain-Retraining? Die aktuellen Grabenkämpfe um die «richtige» Behandlung von Long Covid werden weder der komplexen Erkrankung noch den Betroffenen gerecht.

Meeresforscher Andrew Sweetman stellte eine These auf, die sein Leben veränderte.

“As another Ebola outbreak unfolds, we cannot repeat the mistakes of the past,” writes Krutika Kuppalli.

6 lessons scientists under siege learned the hard way, and how we all can fight back

David Morens, 78, was stripped and handcuffed for email violations

Landmark investigation of 22 meat and dairy companies reveals how the industry mirrors Big Tobacco tactics to distract, delay and derail climate action.

In meinem Artikel gehe ich der Frage nach dem Ursprung der Covid-19-Pandemie nach: Ist das Virus aus einem Labor in China entwichen? Oder steht die Herkunft im Zusammenhang mit dem Wildtierhandel? Zie...

The first part of this rebuttal can be read here; the third part will be posted later. Ridley’s lecture is available on Youtube; I also generated a transcript, available here. The same disclaimer as i...

Matt Ridley, global warming skeptic and co-author with Alina Chan of a book promoting a lab origin of SARS-CoV-2, was invited by Jay Bhattacharya, the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NI...

How the self-styled know-it-alls atop the knowledge economy want to dismantle the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake

In an open letter, MSF called on Gilead to immediately sell the organization lenacapavir for use in its medical programs worldwide.

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As AI-generated sexualised images proliferate and app-facilitated abuse spreads, we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality. It is time to regulate properly

We saw this paradigm at Davos last week, as leaders talked up growth. But that fails the planet and the world’s poorest.

Conspiracy theorists often describe themselves as critical thinkers or skeptics, but they seem to lack these qualities when presented with obviously fabricated materials aligning with their beliefs. T...

As with Peter Mandelson, so in the science world: the Epstein files are not telling us anything that most ordinary punters didn’t already know, but are revealing the full, rotten, appalling extent …