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Learning Through Student Feedback
By Mark Pierce
Epidemiologists Blame 15th Century Science...
Lately I have been writing lots of reference letters for students who are applying... Read >
The polyphagous Spodoptera frugiperda (fall armyworm), a Lepidopteran pest... Read >
Real world data show that the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine rolled... Read >
Tumors can destroy the blood vessels of muscles even when the muscles are nowhere... Read >
A recent meta-analysis of 151 studies included 11,307 instances of some conditions... Read >
Swedish Physics Days
On August 13-15 I will attend for the first time to the Swedish Physics Days, an important national event for Swedish physics. This year the congress takes place at Lulea University of Technology, the institute where I am currently spending some time, hosted by the Machine Learning group through ...
Methanetetrol: We're In A 'Super Alcohol' Timeline Now
Methanetetrol, the only alcohol which has four hydroxyl groups (OH) at a single carbon atom, is out of this world.Scientists meant that literally, it had been only theorized because it cannot occur naturally in Earth's everyday conditions but in extreme conditions of space it was assumed to ...
Extrasensorial Plot Premonition
In the previous article here, I tangentially examined a situation that arises often in collaborative data analysis: the digestion of the results in scientific graphs. The focus of that discussion was the building of a sceptical thinking attitude in my student - it is a really important asset in ...
To Go Where None Have Gone Before
Suppose we, meaning the human race, survive climate change, pandemics, and nuclear proliferation. What then? I’m talking about the long run.We’ve got a faction who think the Earth would have been better off had we not survived – as if the rest of the ecosystem wouldn’t suffer from the radioactivity ...
USDA Results Show Science Can Feed The World If Governments Get Out Of The Way
Until the 1980s, the modern-day Malthus acolytes like Drs. Paul Ehrlich and John Holdren predicted Population Bombs and advocated for government-mandated sterilization and abortion to prevent it.(1)Science didn't buy into the doomsday narrative and the poor have benefited.Rather than the world ...
California Wildfires Linked To Suicide And Harms From PM10
California has an environmental problem. The state is overwhelmingly desert and rain is scarce for 10 months out of the year. Water instead arrives from the mountains. Yet the state legislature and government are allied with environmentalists. They want dams torn down, which means water from the ...
El Niño May Cause Spider Declines
The El Niño climate phenomenon is consistently inconsistent, which plays havoc with computer models hoping to anticipate the effects of increased emissions from large polluting countries like China.It may even be causing periodic booms and busts in spiders and overall insects.Don't worry, there ...
Dust Is Changing The Microbiome Of California Mice, Warn Academics
A new paper from a California university warns that dust is changing the microbiome of mice.Because it is just in mice, and mice are not little people, this is only EXPLORATORY, but so are claims about vaccines, GMOs, and corn syrup and because scientists didn't stand up to those when epidemiology ...
RFK Jr Is Wrong About MRNA Vaccines - They Make COVID-19 Less Deadly
US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has announced he is cancelling US$500 million (£374 million) of research into mRNA vaccines, citing unproven concerns about their safety and long-term effects.Kennedy has claimed that mRNA vaccines “encourage new mutations and can actually prolong pandemics” ...
Ohio State Endorses Probiotic Yogurt - Using Mouse Studies
A new paper from Ohio State University can be considered a giant endorsement for yogurt that makes you poop - but unfortunately for giddy food corporations hoping to gain some scientific credibility it is only in mice, and therefore EXPLORATORY.Because mice are not little people.You just wouldn't ...
Nearly Complete Harbin Skull From 146,000 Years Ago Belongs To The Denisovan Lineage
The discovery of the Denisovans 15 years ago set off a chain of evolutionary research into how they contributed to modern East Asians and Oceanians. A new study adds evidence. Researchers have confirmed that a nearly complete hominin skull from 146,000 years ago that was discovered near Harbin ...
The Lizard Poop Of Madagascar
Some 88 million years ago, Madagascar broke off from India.Isolated from all other landmasses, plants and animals evolved in seclusion, creating a biodiversity hotspot unlike anywhere else on Earth. One way biodiversity spreads is by endozoochory, which is the process name for animals eating plant ...
Age 60 And Up: Walk Faster To Reduce Risk Of Stroke
Epidemiologists correlate inputs to outcomes by looking at surveys and diaries and then seeing what foods, products, or behaviors to outcomes, like better or worse health.It isn't science and is often exploited but it has led to big public health wins, like showing that cigarettes and alcohol cause ...
You Don't Need Government Food Bans For Health, Provide Structure And Choice For Kids
If you need any new evidence that science is just another arm of politics, look to the switch in the Republican party once President Donald Trump embraced former Natural Resources Defense Council lawyer, friend of Obama, and anti-science zealot Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.(1)They've gone ban-happy, the ...
Like Food Coloring Now, Cultural Mullahs Once Claimed Mexican Food Was A Gateway To Disease
In 1915's The Temperance Program, Thomas F. Hubbard et al. laid out the progressive case for why alcohol needed to be banned so convincingly that in 1917, with Democratic control of both houses of Congress and the White House, they got the 18th Amendment to the Constitution out of Washington, D ...
Taurine’s Anti-Aging Hype Takes A Hit In Rigorous New Study
A new study is pouring cold water on the idea that taurine – a nutrient found in the body and in foods – is a magic bullet for aging. Researchers led by Maria Emilia Fernandez at the U.S. National Institute on Aging found that taurine levels in blood do not reliably decline with age in humans ...
We Won't Lose Vaccine Leadership Due To Less Government, Government Has Always Done Little
"If it was up to the NIH to cure polio through a centrally directed program instead of independent investigator driven discovery, you'd have the best iron lung in the world, but not a polio vaccine." - Dr. Samuel Broder, M.D., former Director of the National Cancer InstituteIt's become a popular ...
The Mysterious Humans Near ‘Hobbit’s Island'
Over 1 million years ago, early hominims made a treacherous deep sea crossing to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and in a modern corn field local people discovered what looked like stone tools in the sedimentary layers and called in archaeologists.What they found in the Early Pleistocene ...
The End To Universities Using Graduate Students As Piggy Banks Is Near
In the 1980s, the majority party in Congress saw demography claims that people with college educations made more money than those without. Universities began to lobby for student loan changes. Many smaller private schools were facing funding crunches and people going to college would fix ...
Forget Political Posturing, It's Hard To Warn People About Dangers Like Floods
Flash floods like the one that swept down the Guadalupe River in Texas on July 4, 2025, can be highly unpredictable. While there are sophisticated flood prediction models and different types of warning systems in some places, effective flood protection requires extensive preparedness and awareness ...
A Sad Semiconductor Circus
Donald Trump, alleged by many to be President of the United States, has demanded that Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan resign immediately. Thanking the American public for our “attention to this matter,” Trump claims Tan is “conflicted” due to his investments in China.I dare suggest that Tan respond ...
I Made An AI Clone Of Myself And Now I Am Going To Live Forever
"I made an AI clone of myself and now I am going to live forever" is not a joke. My AI twin, Bloombot, created by Ryan Dean, the Chief Technology Officer of the Howard Bloom Institute, is designed to carry on my way of thinking after I shuffle off this mortal coil. In other words, it is going to ...
Counterfeited In China: US Tariffs May Hurt Criminals The Most
In early 2025, the Trump administration began to place tariffs on countries that already had them on the U.S., like China, Brazil, and many in Europe. China has already begun to experience deflation but a new book reveals that the business sector likely to be impacted most is the $500,000,000,000 ...
Contrary To The Poltical Narrative, A Lot Of Government Science Funding Doesn't Go To Science
Every day we read a new headline warning us that American leadership is about to erode because of budget cuts to 'science.'We have been told tuberculosis was about to be eliminated by a vaccine but a grant got cut and, gosh darn it, now Republicans ruined it. We have been told we'll be set back ...
Air India Crash: Update #2 - The AAIB Report RevisitedThis is another update to my article Air... more »
Eric Weinstein's theory of Geometric Unity is wrong. So is every other so-called theory of everything... more »
In the past few years my activities on this site - but I would say more in general, as the same... more »
This came up on 2nd November 2024 (give or take a day), a broadcaster objecting to a carbon capture... more »
Sheer beauty — a beautiful Euhoplites ammonite from Folkstone, UK. These lovelies have a pleasing... more »
