[NOTE I wrote about the James Webb Telescope previously here.] I’ve grown so used to assuming government incompetence (or worse) as the default position that I’m gobsmacked by this news: The James Webb Space Telescope team has fully deployed the … Continue reading →
Commenter Richard Aubrey writes: Looking at such belief systems from the outside is puzzling. Is it that the individual believes in certain things? Or is it that the individual believes in BELIEVING, irrespective of factual difficulties? From time to time … Continue reading →
…has been launched: The huge telescope will peer at the universe’s first stars and galaxies, sniff the atmospheres of nearby alien planets and perform a variety of other high-profile, high-impact work over the next five to 10 years, if all … Continue reading →
Science marches on: A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Australia and the U.K. has taught a small mass of human brain cells to play the video game Pong… The mass, which the researchers call a cyborg, was … Continue reading →
It could be true. I want it to be true. But I don’t think it’s true: A British aerospace engineer claims to have pinpointed the precise coordinates where Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 crashed and dropped to the bottom of the … Continue reading →
…and the phenomenon has been present from the start. In my opinion, it’s done intentionally, and it continues with each new variant that has taken hold to any marked degree. I’m not a scientist, but very early on in the … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: Instapundit.] This sounds extraordinary: Samuel Stupp at Northwestern University in Chicago and his colleagues created a material made of protein units, called monomers, that self-assemble into long chains, called supramolecular fibrils, in water. When they were injected into … Continue reading →
The medical and leftist political establishments have been experimenting with the lives of children who identify as transgender, without knowing much about it at all. It seems ironic to me, on reading this article, that these radical treatments were offered … Continue reading →
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 →