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Review: Giant Dramatizes Roald Dahl's Antisemitism Controversy

Theater Review: Giant Dramatizes Roald Dahl's Antisemitism Controversy The play presents characters subtly negotiating the...

10.04.2026 3

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Man Successfully Designs mRNA Vaccine To Treat His Dog's Cancer

Cancer Man Successfully Designs mRNA Vaccine To Treat His Dog's Cancer "If we can do this for a dog, why aren't we rolling this out...

19.03.2026 9

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Federal Judge Blocks RFK Jr.'s Arbitrary Changes to Childhood Vaccine Policy

Vaccines Federal Judge Blocks RFK Jr.'s Arbitrary Changes to Childhood Vaccine Policy Under Kennedy's oversight, HHS has...

18.03.2026 6

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Population Doomster and False Prophet of Ecological Apocalypse Paul Ehrlich Has Died

Paul Ehrlich Population Doomster and False Prophet of Ecological Apocalypse Paul Ehrlich Has Died The author of The Population Bomb...

16.03.2026 9

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This Cancer Researcher Home-Brewed a Beer That Works as a Vaccine

Innovation This Cancer Researcher Home-Brewed a Beer That Works as a Vaccine And he's publishing the process so you can do it too. ...

15.03.2026 8

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We Lost the Lyme Vaccine. Under Rand Paul's New Vaccine Liability Bill, We'll Lose More.

Vaccines We Lost the Lyme Vaccine. Under Rand Paul's New Vaccine Liability Bill, We'll Lose More. The End the Vaccine Carveout Act...

05.03.2026 10

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By Closing Moscow's Gulag History Museum, Putin Is Erasing Inconvenient Soviet History

Soviet Union By Closing Moscow's Gulag History Museum, Putin Is Erasing Inconvenient Soviet History As George Orwell warned, "Who...

04.03.2026 20

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Clinical Trials Show Moderna's New mRNA Flu Vaccine Is Safe and Effective. FDA Won't Even Consider It.

13.02.2026 150

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The Feds Won't Certify Safe Vaccines Anymore. The Private Sector Is Stepping Up To Do It.

12.02.2026 10

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The Trump Administration Plans To Repeal EPA Finding That Greenhouse Gas Emissions 'Threaten' Public Health

11.02.2026 10

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Can This AI Predict How You Will Die?

10.02.2026 8

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Energy Department Moves To Fast-Track Advanced Nuclear Reactor Approvals

05.02.2026 10

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Bureau of Land Management Says Bison Are Not Livestock, Obstructing Plans for a Huge Private Prairie Reserve

24.01.2026 40

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Do Cellphones Cause Cancer? RFK Jr.'s HHS Is Suppressing FDA Data Confirming Cellphone Safety.

17.01.2026 20

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Google, SpaceX, and Blue Origin Plan To Put AI in Space. Will It Produce Skynet or Untold Economic Abundance?

12.12.2025 10

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French Study on mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines Finds a Drop in Severe COVID—and No Increase in Deaths

06.12.2025 10

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Thankfully, We Don't Have To Spend As Much of Our Incomes on Food As Our Ancestors Did

27.11.2025 20

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The U.N. Has Now Held 30 Climate Change Conferences That Have Accomplished Almost Nothing

25.11.2025 10

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RFK Jr. Breaks His Promises About the CDC on Vaccines and Autism

22.11.2025 10

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COVID Shots Are Not Causing a 'Turbo Cancer' Epidemic

14.11.2025 10

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The U.N. Has Been Holding Climate Conferences for 30 Years. Carbon Emissions Continue To Climb.

10.11.2025 10

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Vaccine Skeptics Said That COVID Shots Would Cause Mass Death. We're Still Here.

25.10.2025 10

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Needlessly Strict Federal Rules on Radiation Exposure Are Stalling Nuclear Power Development

18.10.2025 20

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Review: This Cat Gamed the Academic Publishing System and Earned High Marks on Google Scholar

17.10.2025 10

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Can Americans Trust RFK Jr.'s Health Advice? A Breakdown on Vaccines, Autism, Food Dyes, and More

30.09.2025 10

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AI Chatbots Might Already Be Better Than Humans at Debating

15.09.2025 10

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Is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. 'Weaponizing Public Health' by Removing the CDC Director?

29.08.2025 10

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RFK Jr. Shifts $500 Million From mRNA Research to 'Safer' Vaccines. Does the Data Back That Up?

08.08.2025 10

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Wild Animals Are Thriving on South Africa's Private Reserves and Game Farms

03.08.2025 20

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Notre-Dame Was Built—and Rebuilt—Through Private Donations

27.07.2025 100

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Dead Wrong About Outlawing Climate Geoengineering

24.07.2025 10

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3-Parent Babies Born Healthy in the U.K.

18.07.2025 10

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The Depopulation Bomb

08.07.2025 10

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New Orleans City Council Considers Ordinance To Adopt Real-Time Facial Recognition Technology

28.06.2025 10

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RFK Jr.'s Handpicked Vaccine Panel Unsurprisingly Delivers Antivaccine Conclusions

27.06.2025 10

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Does Drug Use Lead to Addiction, or Are Some Brains More Prone To Use Drugs?

22.06.2025 30

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Under RFK Jr., Vaccine Approval Is Getting More Politicized, Not Less

13.06.2025 10

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Photo: Dire Wolf De-extinction

01.06.2025 10

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Can America Get Out of the Gerontocracy Trap?

26.04.2025 10

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Virtual Fencing Can Help Buffalo Roam and Antelope Play

24.04.2025 10

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Celebrate Earth Day by Going Nuclear

23.04.2025 10

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The First Colored Eggs Appeared Long Before Easter

20.04.2025 10

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Don't Fear the Bird Flu When Dyeing Easter Eggs

19.04.2025 10

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Colossal Biosciences Resurrects Long-Extinct Dire Wolf

08.04.2025 10

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RFK Jr. Hires a Vaccine 'Skeptic' To Find the Cause of Autism

03.04.2025 10

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Federal Court 'Vacates in Its Entirety' the FDA's Costly and Onerous Lab Test Rule

01.04.2025 10

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Why I'm Not Deleting My 23andMe Genetic Data

27.03.2025 10

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This Mouse Has Two Biological Dads?!

25.03.2025 10

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The Trump Administration's HIV Prevention Contradictions

22.03.2025 10

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Researchers Used Mosquitos To Deliver Malaria Vaccines

16.03.2025 20

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