"If it was up to the NIH to cure polio through a centrally directed program instead of independent investigator driven discovery, you'd have the best iron lung in the world, but not a polio vaccine."…

Air India Crash: Update #2 - The AAIB Report Revisited This is another update to my article Air India Crash: When 2 + 2 Does Not Compute, with evidence and argument in support of my assertion that…

Air India Crash: Update #3This is another update to my article Air India Crash: When 2 + 2 Does Not Compute with fresh evidence and arguments. Many people assume, wrongly, that the chance of two…

Epidemiologists correlate inputs to outcomes by looking at surveys and diaries and then seeing what foods, products, or behaviors to outcomes, like better or worse health. It isn't science and is…

On August 13-15 I will attend for the first time to the Swedish Physics Days, an important national event for Swedish physics. This year the congress takes place at Lulea University of Technology,…

Donald Trump, alleged by many to be President of the United States, has demanded that Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan resign immediately. Thanking the American public for our “attention to this matter,” Trump…

"I made an AI clone of myself and now I am going to live forever" is not a joke. My AI twin, Bloombot, created by Ryan Dean, the Chief Technology Officer of the Howard Bloom Institute, is designed…

US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has announced he is cancelling US$500 million (£374 million) of research into mRNA vaccines, citing unproven concerns about their safety and long-term effects…

California has an environmental problem. The state is overwhelmingly desert and rain is scarce for 10 months out of the year. Water instead arrives from the mountains. Yet the state legislature and…

The El Niño climate phenomenon is consistently inconsistent, which plays havoc with computer models hoping to anticipate the effects of increased emissions from large polluting countries like China.…

Over 1 million years ago, early hominims made a treacherous deep sea crossing to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and in a modern corn field local people discovered what looked like stone…

Air India Crash: Update #1This is an update with fresh evidence and arguments to my article Air India Crash: When 2 + 2 Does Not Compute . The "smoke" at liftoff The plume is almost certainly dust…

Methanetetrol, the only alcohol which has four hydroxyl groups (OH) at a single carbon atom, is out of this world. Scientists meant that literally, it had been only theorized because it cannot occur…

In the previous article here, I tangentially examined a situation that arises often in collaborative data analysis: the digestion of the results in scientific graphs. The focus of that discussion was…

A recent meta-analysis of 151 studies included 11,307 instances of some conditions physicians and scientists dismiss and critics of medicine deem it medical "gaslighting." Joining them are…

Suppose we, meaning the human race, survive climate change, pandemics, and nuclear proliferation. What then? I’m talking about the long run. We’ve got a faction who think the Earth would have been…

Fun With A PunIf you love puns ... Nobody was injured in an unusual dockside accident today. The grain elevators were out of service, so it was decided to unload the grain the old-fashioned way,…

A new paper from a California university warns that dust is changing the microbiome of mice. Because it is just in mice, and mice are not little people, this is only EXPLORATORY, but so are claims…

'Green' chemical products have generally gotten a pass from the environmental community but with one of their own, former Natural Resources Defense Council lawyer Robert F. Kennedy, now in charge of…

Why I've been away and why I'm back. I'm 79yo now.  I receive a state pension which falls short by about £50 a week from what I need to keep paying bills.  I took a break from social media…