Here’s some recent research on the relation between COVID deaths and obesity: To identify potential patterns in data, the researchers employed cutting-edge techniques of statistical analyses. “The main finding from the analysis is a statistically significant positive association between COVID-19 … Continue reading →
Is anyone surprised at this? The Intercept has obtained more than 900 pages of documents detailing the work of EcoHealth Alliance, a U.S.-based health organization that used federal money to fund bat coronavirus research at the Chinese laboratory. The trove … Continue reading →
It’s been revised: Ravindra Gupta, the director of the team at the Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Diseases that conducted the study, confirmed to The Fact Checker that the article had been initially rejected during peer review because … Continue reading →
There’s some news about the study that purports to explain why the CDC changed its mask recommendations to saying that even vaccinated people need to wear masks indoors in higher-COVID areas. Here’s a link to the actual study results. I … Continue reading →
During the Trump administration, the left demanded the most rigorous of clinical trials and controls before any possible treatment that the right – and Trump in particular – might have suggested was possibly helpful in fighting COVID. And yet this … Continue reading →
I happened to go outside yesterday a little while before the sun was due to set, and I saw a most extraordinary thing: the sun, very low in the sky, looked exactly like a bright red ball. Not orange, as … Continue reading →
It’s one of those random facts, perhaps meaningless, that I nevertheless find interesting. From Born’s Wiki page: Max Born was a German physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state … Continue reading →
Charles Murray has been characterized by the left for years as a dangerous far-right lunatic racist who believes that black people are inferior. Here the intrepid Glenn Loury interviews him, and you can see for yourself what Murray really thinks:
Continue reading →There’s a sudden flurry of news articles about a “Dragon Man” skull. Supposedly from a possible archaic human species, the skull has an odd and perhaps suspect provenance: Dragon Man (Homo longi) is an extinct species of archaic human identified … Continue reading →
I am so heartily sick of these people who lie and then lie about their lies and then lie about the lies about…well, you get the idea: First Anthony Fauci told us not to wear masks because they don’t work. … Continue reading →
Here’s Jon Stewart appearing on the Colbert Show, talking about the lab origins of COVID. Watching him reminds me that, politics aside, I often found him to be very funny: But notice what Stewart leaves out. It’s no accident that … Continue reading →
Today I noticed this headdline at Hot Air: “The media’s lab leak debacle shows why banning ‘misinformation’ is a bad idea.” No, it most assuredly does not show that, although banning misinformation is indeed a bad idea because misinformation is … Continue reading →