Our modern-day Icarus
The story of Icarus, who flew too close to the sun and whose wax wings melted and caused his death, is often considered a warning against hubris. So that’s why I refer to people such as this – and he … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Science
Research deception: Harvard’s chief diversity officer and her husband, and they are not alone
Claudine Gay has gotten the most press recently, but there are more allegations of plagiarism at Harvard in the DEI area: Harvard University’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, Sherri Ann Charleston, appears to have plagiarized extensively in her academic work, … Continue reading →
Something new to fear: nanoplastics
Someone was talking to me about this just the other day, as though we don’t already have enough to worry about: So this must be the health scare du jour. I actually rarely drink water from those little bottles. But … Continue reading →
COVID: looking back
Fauci’s been testifying that some of the social distancing recommendations for COVID were based on nothing much: The idea was everyone staying six feet away from each other would slow the virus spread. From that flowed the “need” to close … Continue reading →
Excess deaths and COVID vaccines: interpretation of medical data
I’m really tired of feeling the need to write this sort of thing, having dealt with it over and over again over the last few years. It is my observation that many people have no idea how to interpret medical … Continue reading →
Critiquing AI’s song lyric efforts
Commenter “huxley” had AI perform an interesting exercise. He asked ChatGPT 3.5 to do the following: Write song lyrics like “Why Can’t a Woman Be More like a Man” based on “Why can’t a Nothing be more like a Something.” … Continue reading →
AI on the blog?
Commenter “huxley” writes: A tiny heads-up. Within months you are going to start getting Chat-generated comments. I have no idea what you should do. I don’t know either, but here’s my take on it. If I understand the definition of … Continue reading →
The consciousness of infants
Of interest: There is evidence that some form of conscious experience is present by birth, and perhaps even in late pregnancy, an international team of researchers from Trinity College Dublin and colleagues in Australia, Germany and the USA has found. … Continue reading →
Physical anthropologists, beware – the woke brigade has come for you
From the party of science-non-deniers: The world’s largest anthropological conference with the American Anthropological Association and the Canadian Anthropology Society had hoped to answer [the question of making sex distinctions through skeletal remains] in a panel using science we’ve had … Continue reading →
Identifying the Maui victims
Here’s some relatively good news at last: Within a day of Maui County releasing 388 names of people unaccounted for following the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, more than 100 of them or their relatives came forward … Continue reading →
The worm turns
This is straight out of science fiction: Scientists have revived a worm that was frozen 46,000 years ago — at a time when woolly mammoths, sabre-toothed tigers and giant elks still roamed the Earth. The roundworm, of a previously unknown … Continue reading →
Maui fires
The left likes to use all forest fires as opportunities to blame climate change. But here’s the probable cause for the destructive fires in Maui: But some experts said they suspect human development on the island is at least partly … Continue reading →