Michael Fumento
When you hear “Science says … ,” there’s no such thing. It’s bullying rhetoric, like “Everyone knows … ” or “It’s common wisdom that … ” Sometimes we can turn to authorities like the CDC or the WHO, but they…
Everyone makes mistakes, and we’ve long known the U.S. FDA is no exception. But it’s hard to think of a worse one at a worse time than its approval of the Biogen therapeutic monoclonal antibody aducanumab (brand name Aduhelm) for…
Each year China is producing so much more in greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) that the U.S. and EU could become carbon neutral and … it essentially wouldn’t matter. That is, if the world were truly on target to burn up…
Aside from older age, unfortunately not yet controllable, it’s possible that nothing is more associated with death from COVID-19 than overweight and obesity. Yet it’s the elephant in the room. The mainstream media, seemingly obsessed with absolutely every COVID angle…
Ten years ago I published an article called “No More Crying ‘Spanish Flu,’ ” in part because with every pandemic or potential pandemic that’s exactly what public health service gurus and the media were doing. And in part because the…
Grant the anti-childhood vaccine fanatics this, they are dogged. No amount of data, no number of studies from any array of sources will sway them from their assertions that thimerosal, a mercury-containing vaccine preservative once used in many such injections,…
The UNAIDS program has issued its annual report in which, finally, it doesn’t say how many more current HIV infections there are this year than last. Rather it drops the figure by over six million from its 2006 estimate. Specifically,…
New scientific discoveries keep eating away at the prophecy that “bird flu,” avian influenza type H5N1, will become readily transmissible from human to human and unleash a disastrous pandemic. This leaves little but rhetoric and those big, terrifying, huge, terrifying…
“To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.” So observed Benjamin Franklin centuries ago. But Franklin didn’t comment on whether food intake restriction worked by keeping people thin or by making them thin. Indeed, it’s become a mantra of the “size…
It was an October surprise courtesy of the Lancet medical journal. A report, rushed to the public via online publication five days before the 2004 election, claimed the American-led coalition had directly or indirectly killed about 100,000 Iraqi civilians since…
