Surrounded by security staff, an unmarked white van pulls up to a receiving door behind St. Joseph’s Hospital. Scrub-clad staff quickly remove large boxes covered with blankets from the van and slide them into the building…
Legitimate research doesn’t require secrecy: Video.
Watch the waves from yesterday’s M8.8 megathrust earthquake near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula roll across seismic stations in North America. Just amazing. pic.twitter.com/x1Ji2akphy
— Nahel Belgherze (@WxNB_) July 30, 2025
Grab a mid-strength beverage.
A Midwestern Doctor- What Underlies the Erosion of Trust in Modern Medicine?
Each of these follows the same pattern—something new gets introduced as “safe and effective,” people notice the issues and object to it, science, media and the government conspire to suppress those objections, and then once it’s normalized, something even more egregious is done the next time.
Spectator- Ofcom still isn’t sure what a woman is
So, to be clear, the regulator thinks the view that man-made carbon emissions are causing global warming is so scientifically robust that broadcasters are under no obligation to present alternative opinions, but the notion that sex is binary, immutable and biological is so contentious that if GB News interviews some heretic who thinks trans women aren’t women it has to interview someone alongside them who thinks they are.
Watching closely weather models for chance at world record cold
Antarctica below -120°F on July 12th from the most recent ECMWF model cycle
Blame the Polar Vortex swirling above and around the South Pole. pic.twitter.com/8Tb46XVkzK
— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) July 4, 2025
Watch @marilenharo “science explain” that giving taxpayers access to the research they’ve paid for is really just DEI.
From 1 July, researchers funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will be required to make their scientific papers available to read for free as soon as they are published in a peer-reviewed journal. That’s according to the agency’s latest public-access policy, aimed at making federally funded research accessible to taxpayers.
Established under former US president Joe Biden, the policy was originally set to take effect on 31 December for all US agencies, but the administration of Biden’s successor, Donald Trump, has accelerated its implementation for the NIH, a move that has surprised some scholars. That’s because, although the Trump team has declared itself a defender of taxpayer dollars, it has also targeted programmes and research projects focused on equity and inclusion for elimination. And one of the policy’s main goals is to ensure equitable access to federally funded research.
A comparative genome study of earthworms and their marine relatives could challenge Darwin’s theory of evolution by showing that worms colonized land in evolutionary jumps. […]
The team has shown that marine annelids (worms) reorganised their genome from top to bottom, leaving it unrecognisable, when they left the oceans. Their observations are consistent with a punctuated equilibrium model, and could indicate that not only gradual but sudden changes in the genome could have occurred as these animals adapted to terrestrial settings. The genetic mechanism identified could transform our concept of animal evolution and revolutionise the established laws of genome evolution.
The paper is here.
The Worlds Weirdest And Most Alcoholic Scientist
Long but very interesting. There’s timestamps for specific topics and a transcript for those who want to follow along.
Two Chinese nationals have been accused of smuggling a fungus into the US that officials describe as a “dangerous biological pathogen”.
Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, have been charged with conspiracy, smuggling goods, false statements, and visa fraud, the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan announced on Tuesday.
The complaint alleges Mr Liu tried to smuggle the fungus through Detroit airport so he could study it at a University of Michigan laboratory where his girlfriend, Ms Jian, worked.
The fungus called Fusarium graminearum can cause a disease in wheat, barley, maize and rice that can wipe out crops and lead to vomiting and liver damage if it gets into food.
The fungus is described in scientific literature as a “potential agroterrorism weapon”, according to the US Attorney’s Office, adding it is responsible for “billions of dollars in economic losses worldwide each year.”
Officials further allege Ms Jian received funding from the Chinese government for her research on the pathogen in China. They also claim she is a member of the Chinese Communist Party.
Save this one, we don't see it often. SWPC WSA-ENLIL model forecast for the big full-halo CME en route to Earth. Look at that velocity, 1000+ km/s. I don't think we have had a CME hit us at 1000+ km/s in over 20 years. Arrival time is 13-14h UTC, if it arrives later the velocity… https://t.co/H28okRA4q1 pic.twitter.com/0OHIlselV3
— Jure Atanackov (@JAtanackov) May 31, 2025
That would be 7-8 AM CST in Saskatchewan. Grok explainer: Continue reading
And what does it do?
A long read. Grab yourself a mid-strength beverage.
A Midwestern Doctor- Turbo Cancers and Alternative Cancer Treatments
Recently, Biden was announced to have (likely terminal) metastatic prostate cancer. Scott Adams took that moment to announce that he did as well and that:
I thought nothing could “escape” from a black hole;
A supermassive black hole lurking at the heart of a relatively close galaxy is firing off a rapid-fire slew of ultrafast gas “bullets” into the surrounding galaxy.
This is the conclusion of an international team of astronomers with the U.S./Japanese X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), whose spacecraft was designed to observe the hot plasma winds that blow through galaxies.
The subject of the study was PDS 456, an active galactic nucleus located some 2.18 giga light-years from the Earth in the constellation of Serpens.
The team say that the energy being carried by the “bullets” of wind is far greater than was expected—and could shake up our understanding of how galaxies and their central black holes evolve in tandem.
But it’s Newsweek, so they probably got it wrong.
RFK Jr. CONFIRMS to Sen. Rand Paul that the FBI is investigating a breach at Fort Detrick in which PPE was intentionally slashed.
He also confirms that viruses handled included one with a ~50% fatality rate.
Paul says a bill is needed to end GOF. pic.twitter.com/U5gnsXuHmt
— Emily Kopp (@emilyakopp) May 14, 2025
Related: Birth rates down after vaccine
Scientists at Europe’s Large Hadron Collider have successfully transformed lead into gold.
Of course there is.