Volume 81, no. 9 The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced the release of its “new” plan to promote “gold standard” science. “Building on NIH’s longstanding commitment to scientific integrity, this forward-looking plan […]
Volume 81, no. 8 A palantir was one of the “seeing stones” that could “watch from afar,” made by Elves in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. The stones could be used to see events in […]
Volume 81, no. 7 July 2025 Your mother might have encouraged you when other kids said mean things: “words will never hurt you.” But words are more powerful than sticks and stones. False accusations can […]
Volume 81, no. 6 June 2025 Those who were in college in the 1960s and 1970s are having déjà vu about the student riots. But how many who participated in the Revolution, like the late […]
Volume 81, no. 5 May 2025 Public policy decisions with profound consequences are being made based on statistical models: setting the “permissible” atmospheric concentration of CO2, predicting deaths from COVID, estimating “lives saved” by vaccines, […]
For two thousand years, the paradigm of the four humors (blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile) ruled medicine. Disease resulted from an imbalance, which might be corrected by methods such as blood-letting or purging. […]
Volume 81, no. 3 After a few weeks of the Trump Administration, there is hope that the U.S. can “detransition” from an oppressive Uniparty regime, with all institutions dominated by “woke” cultural Marxists who are […]
Volume 81, no. 2 The task of “Making America Great Again” is colossal, and the damage of decades cannot be repaired overnight. Priorities must be set, but there must also be agreement on definitions. The […]
Volume 81, no. 1 January 2025 The Continuing Resolution that passed Congress did not include suspending the federal debt limit for two years, as President-elect Trump had requested, possibly hoping to place the responsibility on […]
Volume 80, no. 12 December 2024 An electoral shift to the right, or “right-wing” influence in media, education, entertainment, business, law enforcement, the military, or medicine might be deplored as a return to the Dark […]
