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March 14th, 2024
By: Bjorn Lomborg – wsj.com – March 13, 2024 More than one million people die in traffic accidents globally each year. Overnight, governments could solve this entirely man-made problem by reducing speed limits everywhere to 3 miles an hour, but we’d laugh any politician who suggested it out of office. It would be absurd to focus solely on lives saved...
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March 14th, 2024
The left has a new goal: degrowth. We should “buy less stuff,” forgive debts, grow our own food, etc.
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March 7th, 2024
By: Matt Ridley – wsj.com – March 6, 2023 The threat to humans from animal viruses is small. The financial incentive to pretend otherwise is large. That assumption is almost certainly false. A new report from the University of Leeds, prepared in part by former World Health Organization executives, finds that the claims made by the G-20 in support of...
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March 7th, 2024
The threat to humans from animal viruses is small. The financial incentive to pretend otherwise is large. Source: Why Scientists Love Chasing Bats – WSJ
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March 1st, 2024
By: Nicholas Wade – wsj.com – February 28, 2024 This startling fact will probably take some time to sink into the national consciousness, given the mainstream media’s sustained inability to report the issue objectively. Editors have failed to think beyond the extreme politicization that requires liberals to oppose the lab-leak hypothesis. Science journalists are too beholden to their sources to...
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February 23rd, 2024
Recall that Victor Frankenstein tried to tinker with nature. Let’s just say it didn’t go well, and he regretted it for the rest of his life. Today, a new group of scientists has announced their own plans to tinker with nature.
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February 22nd, 2024
St. Philip’s College in San Antonio, Texas has reinstated Dr. Johnson Varkey, a former adjunct professor, a year after he was fired for teaching standard principles about human biology and reproduction.
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February 21st, 2024
By: Eric Niiler – wsj.com – February 14, 2024 The shift reflects growing concern that efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions aren’t moving fast enough to prevent the destructive effects of heat waves, storms and floods made worse by climate change. Geoengineering isn’t a substitute for reducing emissions, according to scientists and business leaders involved in the projects. Rather, it...
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February 20th, 2024
If there were any doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic exposed widespread corruption in America’s health care establishment, a federal lawsuit should put it to rest.
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February 15th, 2024
COVID-19 vaccines were supposed to help. Researchers—and government officials—are loath to admit that for some people, they actually hurt.
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