Scientific journals have had enormous positive impact on the development of science, but in some ways, they are now hampering rather than enhancing open scientific discourse. After reviewing the history and current problems with journals, a new academic publishing model is proposed.
The Rise and Fall of Scientific Journals and a Way Forward Continue Reading
The lesson is simple. Trust people with their lives, their choices, their communities. Governments have formal responsibilities to their people, and micromanaging breathing or bread consumption are not among them. Let crises teach humility, not hubris.
Echoes of the Great Famine in the Covid Era Continue Reading
Decomposing carbon builds soil, not 10-10-10 chemical fertilizer. Grass and forbs build soil faster than trees. Ponds provide the key to landscape hydration. Polyface is devoted to these protocols from nature; thank you for being a part of the restoration.
It’s time that the 2009 swine flu shakedown comes out of the memory hole for no other reason than it might help stop the experts, such as some of the ones who appeared at last week’s Scottish Government’s Covid Inquiry.
The WHO Pandemic Accords, as the two documents are known, are a good example of the type of global governance initiatives on which there is a consensus among technocratic elites, but against which there is a rising populist revolt.
The big mistake of so-called rational thinking is consistently underestimating the power of people’s need to believe in something transcendent of what they, at one point or another in their life, come to realize is their own cosmic insignificance.
This is the American story. We tried a new experiment in letting all flowers bloom. It created the greatest garden of diverse faith the world has ever seen. It stands now as an example to everyone.
We are more disconnected than ever before and we have lost our ability to communicate with each other. And yet our destruction is well masked in the pretence of progress and unity.
We can argue about just how much democracy is desirable in a republic where the rights of the individual are supposed to stand paramount to the whims of the demos, but all of us can agree on a basic issue.
In this era of controlled drug trials, there is a pretense of attempting to determine whether a drug works and is safe before it is given to patients. However, the definitions of “control,” “efficacy,” and “safety” are loose in practice.
The America of 1960 was metabolically healthier than the America of 2025, not because our grandparents had better genes, but because they lived in an environment that did not constantly conspire against their physiology.
The Comfortable Collapse: How America Learned to Pretend Obesity Is Normal Continue Reading
America is a commercial culture, but we have always managed to recognize that this means it is also a gift-giving culture, each of us bringing what we have to others to improve their lot and our own at the same time.
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