This could be an interesting salon on Thursday.
Category Archives: Science And Society
To J. K. Rowlings
These LGBTQalphabet activists are out of their minds.
The Costs Of Mann Delay
The latest on our lawsuit, from Mark Steyn. This is our biggest legal victory yet.
Persecution Is Cool
Bob Zimmerman, on the cancel culture within the space and science community.
Keith has blocked me on Twitter, and I suspect I’m on a lot of blocklists. I follow a lot of space people, like Carolyn, but only engage them on space and science topics. I don’t argue non-space politics with space people, because many of them are leftist loons, which is why I maintain separate accounts for space stuff and the book.
[Update Wednesday morning]
Hibernation
Researchers have figured out how to induce it in mice, and it may work for humans as well.
It has obvious implications for space travel, but I wouldn’t have minded sleeping through the past five months, myself.
Developing A Vaccine
Yes, we should be doing challenge trials, and let adults decide what they want to do with their bodies. As I noted in the book, how many potential lives might have been saved by being willing to risk ISS crew for medical research?
The Incoherence Of Public Health
You know you’re in trouble when the Guardian notices.
[Update a while later]
Politicizing science: Bob Zimmerman is not impressed.
[Update a while more later]
Tribalism
Out With The Old Blood
An interesting anti-aging result in mice. The interesting thing is that it’s already an approved procedure, so it won’t need clinical trials.
Functioning Human Livers
…have been grown from stem cells. They’re tiny, for now, but this seems like a huge breakthrough. And good news for alcoholics, among others.