The last weeks of Charles Byrne’s life were nightmarish. Known as the Irish Giant, the seven-foot seven-inch man from Ulster had made his way in 1782 to London, where he earned money by exhibiting himself as a freak. By the …
Can psychedelics cure depression?
Is there a clinical case for psychedelic drugs? Professor David Nutt, a neuropsychopharmacologist, has spent his career trying to demonstrate that there is — and that, beyond their recreational powers, drugs such as psilocybin can effectively treat depression. Some of …
Why is my gender research being cancelled?
Since my academic paper on Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria was published last month, it has been downloaded more than 38,000 times and is ranked in the top percentile of similar articles in terms of online attention. One might think that …
The mystery of gay animals
The most famous penguin of modern times must be a chick named Tango, who hatched in Central Park Zoo in 1999. The unusual thing about her was that her parents, Roy and Silo, were both males; the pair had reportedly …
Left-brain thinking will destroy civilisation
What has an esoteric theory about the differing functions of the two hemispheres of the brain got to do with everyday politics, or science, or arguments on Twitter? Potentially, rather a lot.
Dr Iain McGilchrist is a neuroscientist and philosopher …
The Harvard professor who thinks aliens exist
A year of spy balloons and UFOs in North America has sparked renewed interest in the possibility of extraterrestrial life — and not just among conspiracy theorists. Some of the world’s leading cosmologists are convinced that alien technology has already …
The man who launched the vaccine wars
On a dull morning, 25 years ago, scores of journalists and TV crews gathered at The Royal Free hospital in north London. The occasion was a press conference for a five-page, 4,000-word “paper” in The Lancet medical journal. Thousands of …
Why have scientists stopped taking risks?
A casual consumer of scientific journalism could be forgiven for thinking that we are living in a golden age of research. Systematic evidence, however, suggests otherwise. Breakthroughs comparable to the discovery of DNA — only 70 years ago — have …
The myths of Pandemic Preparedness
by Dr David Bell. Also published in Brownstone Institute
We are assured by the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank, the G20 and their friends that pandemics pose an existential threat to our survival and well-being. Pandemics are becoming…The birth of the biostate
While each of Beveridge’s “Five Giants” — want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness — remains unslain, one in particular retains the power to cripple entire nations with the stroke of a pen. The past three years have revealed many things, …
Interview 1765 – Movies Are Dead on The Ripple Effect
via The Ripple Effect podcast: James joins Ricky Varandas on The Ripple Effect podcast for a wide-ranging discussion about scientism, censorship, and the future of media.
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Pfizer’s Covid-19 Vaccine Clinical Trial Review
by Shay Zakov
Key Points-
Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine EUA was granted based on early results from an interim analysis from the vaccine’s phase III clinical trial
Deep examination of the results from this analysis suggest that the vaccine has an
Pfizer’s Covid-19 Vaccine Clinical Trial Review
by Shay Zakov, PhD
Key Points-
Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine EUA was granted based on early results from an interim analysis from the vaccine’s phase III clinical trial
Deep examination of the results from this analysis suggest that the vaccine has
The tyranny of a Covid amnesty
I spent the last days of innocence before Trump and Brexit heavily pregnant. Like many first-time mums, I read a lot of pregnancy books, but the one I liked most was Expecting Better. Written by Emily Oster, an economist, the …
