A bill loaded with amendments benefiting special interests is likely to pass the Senate this week. The bill would allow the NIH to pursue “in vitro culture of chimeric embryos”—the creation of hybrid human-animal embryos for experiments.
That’s how one expert describes gain of function research on deadly viruses, which—thanks to an amateur research group called DRASTIC—we now know was being conducted on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology with US taxpayer dollars.Continue Reading
Scientists at the University of Glasgow claim to have developed a method for detecting life in outer space and collecting samples—with an eye to cloning it in a lab back here on Earth.Continue Reading
After 11 days of rockets, Israel and Hamas have signaled willingness to discuss a cease-fire. The question is how long it will last and what the consequences will be for Israel’s relations with its Western allies.
Associated Press criticized Israel for destroying the building that housed its offices in Gaza. The IDF says the building also housed Hamas intelligence operations and weapons manufacturing—and that AP’s local reporters knew about it.
An intense rocket barrage this week has pushed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to its highest level since the 2014 Gaza War. The question is whether this attack was at the bidding of Iran.
Evidence mounts that federal government unemployment bonuses are hobbling an economic recovery by paying people more to stay home than to go back to work.
American media was fixated on hearings about the January 6 riot at the Capitol Monday while the al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount was engulfed in smoke.
Chinese scientists have researched ways to deploy biological weapons to fight a Third World War, including a weaponized coronavirus, since at least 2015, raising questions about the origins of COVID-19.
An important study by researchers at the Salk Institute published last Friday is a reminder that we don’t know as much about SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, and the experimental vaccines as we’ve been told.