I hope everyone in the States had a fantastic Thanksgiving (even if you’re a Dallas Cowboys football fan). I hate to ruin the holiday, but… We have a new variant. I’ve not seen this much anxiety ridden chatter among scientists about a COVID19 variant before. Even among the calm, cool, and collected scientists.

Some context on the Surgeon General's declaration this week

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Mantic Monday 7/1/24

The cold facts recorded in Jewish and Palestinian genetics today and historically

The future is mostly the past and AGI is still just a dream

Non-secrets for voracious reading

July 13

It's time to be honest about bad evidence and bad leadership

I’ve taken a little break from the “Improving Your Critical Appraisal Skills” series but I’m returning with a few more. Decision analyses determine the best course of action when faced with two or more alternatives considering everything important in actual clinical decisions.

A seemingly innocuous question masks a demand for conformity with a regressive ideology.

This pivotal case will determine whether gender identity trumps biological sex under Australian sex discrimination law.

The takeover by this Omicron sub-variant is not pretty

Listen now (45 mins) | A fun, entertaining and instructive conversation about how our perceptions of many of the things we often ingest got off track years ago....and persist.

Information forwarded by a reader, I am looking for feedback

Some comments from my Finance and Economics correspondent

Corruption everywhere, even in YouTube's kids content

Claude Sonnet 3.5 fails miserably at preschool lesson planning

A look at the past, and future, of Muslim rule in Europe

Finally, meeting the comedy legend, and we don't just talk about transsexuals.

Why the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that's a great thing

The lizards strike back

Lockdowns, Life, and Death

Naked Sailors

Anxiety & adjustment

Beauty & ambiguity

Targeted temperature management after cardiac arrest: new AHA guidelines

JAMA review supports the new paradigm of steroids-for-most in the ICU

With cancer rates skyrocketing, it's time to shed some light on what we know.

Your children aren't being targeted by another Chinese bioweapon.

Is IFS implanting a belief in demons into clients?

Plus other links on psychedelic and ecstatic experiences

Six ideas to arrest fertility decline...

There are factors well known to economists – but not to the general public – that can explain why African development has stalled.

Listen now | For once, a nice non-controversial topic

Listen now | This week it’s the UK General Election, and lots of other countries either have elections coming soon or have recently voted. Lots of pollsters and political scientists have been attempting to predict the outcomes - but how successful will they be? In this

Hypothyroidism often goes unnoticed because “several generations of primary care physicians and endocrinologists have been trained to treat blood tests and not patients.” - Dr. Mark Starr

And why it should worry us

Idalia will make landfall on Wednesday. These are the surge, wind, rain, and tornado impacts Florida can expect.

Beryl is the strongest July hurricane ever. Jamaica, the Yucatan peninsula, and western Gulf Coast should be watching carefully.

Typing isn't all that, if you want to actually *remember* anything.

So let's all read the Introduction together!

A colleague sent two challenges to me, posted by Jordan Peterson, suggesting I should respond. I’m happy to do so because I greatly respect Dr Peterson’s courageous stance against a bossy, intolerant thought-police whose Orwellian newspeak threatens enlightened rationalism. The hero of

The savage missiles hurled at Kathleen Stock in the stocks of Sussex University gives the lie to the pretense that her tormentors should be pitied as an oppressed minority who just want to peacefully get on with their life. I’ve long admired her gentle courage in the face of vicious bullying. When we finally met at the Dissident Dialogues Conference in …

A no-holds-barred interview with Tom Jefferson

Women were told the placebo in the trial was inactive and that the vaccine's adjuvant had been safety tested - both were untrue.

I was doing the background research for my lecture on Prostate Cancer in my IPAK-EDU Course, The Biology of Cancer, looking for treatments that enhance genomic instability - and Guess What?

Live virtual studio audience, knowledge from AROUND THE GLOBE!

Quando indicar esse método para avaliação da doença arterial coronária?

Quando a intervenção invasiva resolve de fato a angina?