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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims that “the world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change.” The people at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change agree, saying that to avoid some of the most devastating impacts of climate change, the world must slash carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030 and […]

If there's one medical treatment that proponents of "alternative medicine" love to hate, it's chemotherapy. Rants against "poisoning" are a regular staple on "alternative health" websites, usually coupled with insinuations or outright accusations that the only reason oncologists administer chemotherapy is because of the "cancer industrial complex" in which big pharma profits massively from selling chemotherapeutic agents and oncologists and hospi...

The climate change movements catchphrase is that the science is settled, but it isnt, and good policy takes that into account. Read more.

Marian Tupy and David Deutsch’s op-ed “We Will Never Run Out of Resources” (July 21) recalls the work of Julian Simon. The late economist famously bet…

Last year nearly 14.5 lakh Indians were diagnosed with cancer. It is estimated that in India, 1 in 9 people are going to develop some kind of cancer over the course of their lifetime. Whenever...

The future of humanity is becoming ever less human. The astounding capabilities of ChatGPT and other forms of artificial intelligence have triggered fears about the coming age of machines leaving little place for human creativity or employment. Even the architects of this brave new world are sounding the alarm. Sam Altman, chairman and CEO of OpenAI, which developed ChatGPT, recently warned that artificial intelligence poses an “existential risk” to humanity and warned Congress that artifici...

Population changes will continue to matter, but not always in ways predicted earlier. Up to very recent years, world population has grown very rapidly. For example, there were about one billion people living in the world in 1800, and 2.5 billion in 1955. These numbers then spiked quickly, and indeed more than tripled until our

First vaccine that can protect babies against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) EU Commission still has to approve the approval of the Abrysvo vaccine. In Europe, RSV causes an estimated 65,250 hospitalizations and 000,17 hospital deaths each year in people aged 000 and over. Most common side effects in pregnant women were pain at the injection site, headache and muscle pain in people over 60 years of age, according to the Ema. In pregnant women, the antibodies penetrate the placenta and give th...

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero