In March 2025, the Australian government quietly buried its last collection of Pleistocene human fossils in an unmarked grave. These remains were of Homo sapiens who had shared the Earth with Neanderthals. But they went into the ground with little media coverage or protest from the global scientific community, who knew better than anyone that these delicate, carefully reconstructed fossils would not last long in hostile conditions.
The significance of this loss is hard to overstate. Australia is a unique piece in the puzzle of human origins. It was colonized by modern humans before Europe, but it remained almost entirely isolated, preserving many aspects of human culture and genetics that vanished elsewhere. As Charles Darwin observed, “the Australian aborigines rank amongst the most distinct of all the races of man.”
Following the British settlement of Australia, museums and universities accumulated collections of both historical and ancient remains. Most material came from southeast Australia and Tasmania, where the once-numerous tribes had suffered enormous losses and even extinction. Today, these thousands of bones, mummies, and fossils have almost all been buried or cremated; genetic “biographies” that were burned before they were ever read.
The Sound Of Settled Science
Strange glassy blobs strewn across the Australian desert are evidence of an ancient meteorite impact that scientists hadn’t noticed until now. […]
“They formed when an asteroid slammed into Earth, melting surface rock and scattering debris for thousands of kilometres. These tiny pieces of glass are like little time capsules from deep in our planet’s history.
“What makes the discovery even more intriguing is that, although the impact must have been immense, scientists are yet to locate the crater.”
Younger Dryas, call your office.
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Peanut allergies are down 43% since we stopped avoiding peanuts in childhood.
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“This isn’t science fiction. This is the work of Michael Levin at Tufts University and is completely rewriting the rules of biology.”
Science!
The Times- Nature journal accused of abandoning science for social justice
Richard Dawkins, the British evolutionary biologist, backed Krylov and said that too many journals were “favouring authors because of their identity group rather than the excellence and importance of their science”.
What Would We Do Without Peer Review?
I am writing in response to your invitation to review the manuscript titled “Large circular dichroism in the total photoemission yield of free chiral nanoparticles created by a pure electric dipole effect” submitted for publication in Nature Communications.
Although the topic is within my field of expertise and I would normally welcome the opportunity to contribute to peer review, I must decline. Furthermore, I have decided not to engage with journals belonging to the Nature group in any professional capacity in the future because the group has adopted policies and practices that are incompatible with the mission of a scientific publisher.
Scientific publishers play a key role in the production of knowledge — they are a pillar of what Jonathan Rauch has termed the “the Constitution of Knowledge” (Rauch, 2025). The role of the publisher is to be an epistemic funnel: it accepts claims to truth at one end, but permits only those that withstand organized scrutiny to emerge from the other, a function traditionally performed by a rigorous peer-review and editorial process. This process should be guided by scientific rigor and a commitment to finding objective truth.
Unfortunately, the Nature group has abandoned its mission in favor of advancing a social justice agenda. The group has institutionalized censorship, implemented policies that have sacrificed merit in favor of identity-based criteria, and injected social engineering into its author guidelines and publishing process. The result is that papers published in Nature journals can no longer be regarded as rigorous science.
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Spare Parts
A Midwestern Doctor- The Hidden Crisis in Organ Transplantation
Science!
Where would we be without peer review?
Pub med- Prostate Cancer in Transgender Women: Incidence, Etiopathogenesis, and Management Challenges
Harvard Health- Prostate cancer in transgender women
Nature- Incidence of prostate cancer in transgender women in the US: a large database analysis
Canadian Urological Association Journal- Rethinking prostate cancer screening in transgender women
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Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan- Antidepressants in mild depression
In mild depression, the effect of antidepressants is clinically irrelevant – improvements are mainly attributable to placebo response, natural recovery, or nonspecific effects.
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Humans in America 130k years ago?
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Grab yourself a mid-strength beverage.
A Midwestern Doctor- Why Does Tylenol Cause Chronic Illnesses Like Autism?
Exploring how suppressing acute but manageable symptoms can transform them into significantly more severe illnesses.
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New English Review – Unsettled Science: Covid, Net Zero and the corruption of debate.
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Grab yourself a mid-strength beverage.
Heather Heying- Informed Consent in the Land of Psychiatric Drugs
Make Media Crazy Again
The press is mocking RFK Jr. and President Trump for linking Tylenol to autism.
But universities like Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Mount Sinai — none of them aligned with Trump or RFK — have published research showing the risks.
Science shouldn’t be political.
A thread on autism studies that link prenatal exposure to acetaminophen to increased risk of neurodevelopmental disorders.
The Science Is Settled?
I’ve always been skeptical of the disease model of addiction, and the treatment industry that flows from that theory. Disagreements of a fundamental nature in the scientific community on a host of issues are remarkably common, contrary to what the mainstream media would like you to think.
Smith was steadfast in her belief that her actions were volitional from the start. Her drug use and crimes were not the products of an immoral character or a faulty brain incapable of change, but rather of an environment where heroin was accessible and desirable. This outlook determined her experiences in prison and beyond, ultimately leading her to dedicate her life to challenging predominant medical models of addiction with her research. Today, she is an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioural sciences at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
Dave Hone With Lex Fridman
T-Rex was weirdly big. Three plus hours of dinosaurs, extinction, evolution, and Jurassic Park for your afternoon’s entertainment.
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ADHD – the Truth Goes Down the Memory Hole
This is in my view one of the great scandals of our age. We have turned away in horror from the chastisement of naughty children, to such an extent that in some European countries it is a crime to smack a child. Yet we drug children, often at very young ages and in increasing numbers, with amphetamines whose use is in general sternly banned by law. If smacking a defenceless child is wrong, then surely drugging a defenceless child is just as wrong. And yet conventional wisdom, which decides these things, regards the smack as an outrage, and the drug as normal and right. It is in these anomalies that we find out what is really wrong with our world.