Today that most highly anticipated post of the year, the post where you learn what you, the reader, did to us. For it is you who are responsible for what…
A toxin, as the redoubtable reader undoubtedly knows, is a poison. And a poison, says Mr Webster, is that which causes "morbid, noxious, or deadly effects". People who ingest or…
NOTHING MORTAL GOES FOREVER Should we quit these updates? I know I've grown sick of them. Are you? Maybe replace them with articles when warranted, such as what our dear…
BURDEN OF PROOF I remind readers that we skeptics have no burden whatsoever to prove that mask mandates and lockdowns don't work, or even that experimental vaccines don't cause harm.…
From reader Goncalo Dias comes this excellent question: I have just sat through your seminar on (super-)models. [LINK] I have a quick question: if you assume some fluid mechanical properties…
Joe Biden, or his handlers, are suggesting that, if elected, he'd implement a nation-wide mask mandate. He says he'd make the case "with scientists" for every state, every county, every…
VATICAN CATCHES A COLD So the Vatican is holding a health conference, promoting it using an image like the one in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel, where God gives life to man.…
Sometime back in the late 1990s, Utne Reader, a magazine which was then what we called "progressive", voted Ithaca, NY, the Most Enlightened city in America. I lived there at…