25 September 2023 A new report published by retired physics professor Denis Rancourt and colleagu

11 September 2023 The Journals of the American Medical Association, or JAMA Network, are a stable

29 March 2021; updated 4 September 2023 In Part 1 of this mini-series, I covered the first ten of

22 March 2021; updated 28 August 2023 In last week's post, How to sharpen your bullsh*t detection

15 March 2021; updated 21 August 2023 The American philosopher Harry Frankfurt opened his 1986 es

3 July 2023 Back in January 2022, I wrote an article titled Is Hanlon’s Razor sharp enough for

26 June 2023 I've been thinking about war a lot lately. As I mentioned in Academia and the new da

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Stupid paper #2: Spanish researchers discover the bleeding obvious, while failing to ask themselves

Stupid paper #1: Highly educated researchers can't understand why people who observe that their gove

Take a deep dive into PCR testing for SARS-CoV-2, the (lack of) science supporting universal mask-we

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In Part 1 of this series, I summarised the decades-long process via which neoliberalism and its offs

In Part 1 of this series, I discussed the way in which statistics about SARS-CoV-2 infections and CO

There is a recurrent motif in both the public pronouncements of politicians and their advisors, and

31 May 2021 This is the final instalment of my three part series examining the corrosive effects

24 May 2021 Last week's post began my three part series examining the corrosive effects of the po

17 May 2021 As anyone who knows me to any degree is aware, I'm a big ol' science nerd. A geek gir

7 December 2020 Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a constant repetitio

I have been contacted by my many clients and subscribers with concerns about the current COVID-19 ou

18 January 2021 Within weeks, the Australian Federal government will be spending A$24 million of

As winter enshrouds the southern hemisphere and millions of us continue to be barred from accessing

A study published online ahead of print in The Journal of Infectious Diseases provides intriguing in

As I discussed in a previous article, we are constantly being told by politicians, the media, and no

We are living in a time of unprecedented violation of the civil liberties that are central to democr

15 March 2021; updated 21 August 2023 The American philosopher Harry Frankfurt opened his 1986 es

5 April, 2021 It's now over a year since we were told we all needed to stay home for a couple of

25 January 2021 Back in July 2020, I published a post on so-called 'silent spreaders' of SARS-CoV

4 January 2021 Two years before Event 201, the good folks at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Secu

Social isolation kills. This is neither a controversial statement, at least among those who have eve

29 March 2021; updated 4 September 2023 In Part 1 of this mini-series, I covered the first ten of

22 March 2021; updated 28 August 2023 In last week's post, How to sharpen your bullsh*t detection

26 July 2021 As an unprecedented wave of germaphobia swept the world in 2020, with hand sanitiser

14 June 2021 Unsurprisingly, lately my email inbox has been flooded with questions from clients a

12 April, 2021 Back in 2016, I undertook an Honours program in the School of Public Health at Edi

19 July 2021 It has been observed by notable people ranging from Thomas Jefferson to Winston Chur

1 March 2021 Does an article that appeared in a recent edition of JAMA really provide conclusive

21 December 2020 I normally write articles rather than do videos but when I started writing about