Here is how the political magazine Nature opened its article "25 million deaths: what could happen if the US ends global health funding: Models estimate the ginormous potential impact of…

I'm happy to report that we had a good crop of predictions for 2024. As is usual, I only highlight the best, or worst, or funniest forecast every entrant gave.…

We continue our leisurely and in-depth study of the works of David Stove. We're still with his book On Enlightenment. This article is long, so if you're short of time,…

Interesting times for science are in store given the incoming administration. RFK, Jr. has been tasked to make America Healthy Again. He will fail where he encourages women to kill…

Half the country will be unhappy late tonight. Or in a few days, when the last of the new votes are "discovered". Yet be of good cheer! This was all…

Here's a graph which I entitle Gradually Then Suddenly (ladies, try not to swoon over my astonishing artistic gifts): If you're a classicist you might prefer the title Motus In…

Karnik is more in touch with "normies" than the author of this blog/Substack, and I thought it would be interesting to bring us that perspective. For instance, I look with…

Here is the opening sentence in the Abstract of a paper in the NEJM, as hilariously false as you are like to see these days: "Violence against women receives little…