ALL CAUSE DEATHS This is usually in the numbers section, but I worry the point I'm making is getting lost. The week-of-the-year all-cause deaths. Green line is 2021, red is…

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…

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…

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.…

HOW TO WIELD POWER DeSantis suspends all local COVID-19 emergency orders Gov. DeSantis signed several executive orders to immediately suspend and eventually invalidate by July 1 all local emergency orders…

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.…

MASKS DO NOT WORK The paper is Facemasks in the COVID-19 era: A health hypothesis in Medical Hypothesis, by Baruch Vainshelboim. (I am thrilled to say this beats me to…

EXPERTS FLASH THEIR WEE P Masks are the uniform of the effeminate. You'll have heard by now of CDC's latest mask study, in which grown experts flash their wee p-values…