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Statements made by Fox News host Tucker Carlson furthered theories that a manipulated virus spilled over from a lab in Wuhan, China.

Antivaxers like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. bend over backwards to represent themselves as "not antivaccine." Don't believe them. They are. It's how they suck in the clueless, like Robert De Niro and Pratik Chougule.

Tobacco companies lied to the public for years about the harm their products do, before they were exposed and vilified. Is the same thing about to happen to Instagram and other social media programs?

“The Akhlaquna Award motivated me to rethink our roles in this life. I became more inclined to help the elderly and to help those who need it. I learned how to apply ethical values to my future patients; how to build a relationship with them that continues to enhance their recovery; and I learned how a smile, or a kind gesture can make someone happy.” 

Ronald Bailey Jul 10, 2021 10:10 PM ET How bad is the false-positive problem in scientific research? As I earlier reported, a 2015 editorial in The Lancet observed that "much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue." A 2015 British Academy of Medical Sciences report suggested that the false discovery rate in some areas of biomedicine could be as high as 69 percent. In an email exchange with me, Ioannidis estimated that the nonreplication rates in biomedical observational and preclinical studies could be as high as 90 percent. The possibility that fraud may well be re...