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Group Founded by Francis Collins Launches PR Campaign for “Science”

If your research at Harvard costs $1 million to conduct, Harvard will get an extra payment of nearly $900,000 to sweeten the deal. Who wouldn’t want free money? Read More ›
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Pond Scum Is Our Equal: That’s Nature Rights for You

Now, a “tribunal” will be held in New York to promote the rights of nature and undermine public support for fossil fuels. Read More ›
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On Tobacco, Technocracy Has a Clever New Idea

Is tobacco just the first villain to be punished by a growing technocracy that seeks to limit freedom based on an ever-expanding definition of “health”? Read More ›
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Beware of the “Right to Health”

Health and wellness are becoming the primary justifications for international technocracy, or “rule by experts.” Read More ›
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This Is Science? Top Medical Journal Goes After … Capitalism

Having strived to transform global warming into a planetary health emergency, it has now published a screed attacking “commercialism” for killing the planet. Read More ›
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As Trust in Science Sinks, Prestigious Journal Decides to Showcase Yet Another Politicized Scientist

The world’s most prestigious science journal just published an ex-astronomer's remarkable screed. Read More ›
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Time to Make Fossil Fuel Industries “Pay”?

Authoritarian central planning never works and it wouldn’t “save the planet.” It would just make us all less prosperous and free. Read More ›
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Is Joe Blow “Anti-Intellectual”?

Joe wonders how a scientist could be so wrong and still keep his job. Read More ›
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Medical Journal Declares War on Natural Gas

Never mind that the U.S.’s increased reliance on natural gas has allowed us, pretty much alone in the world, to actually reduce our carbon emissions. Read More ›
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Remembering the First Manned Moon Landing at 50; What Does the Future Hold?

I remember watching the Apollo moon landings on TV from 1969 to 1972 as a child. Read More ›

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