How is it that the state of Florida, a state run by a Republican Governor who has rejected wholesale the lockdown wisdom, has had such success in reducing Covid numbers? How is it that the same state, known as the retirement home of America, has been one of the most successful states in America in […]
People who travel to South Korea often say that the most delightful aspect of their visit was the Korean people, who are hospitable, friendly, and “civic minded.” But those notoriously nice people come up way short in one very important aspect: reproducing. In 1960, South Korea’s fertility rate was 6.0. In 2020, it was 0.84. […]
An extraordinary video here, and one which really puts into context the difficulty which lockdown proponents are having in explaining the success of Texas, and Mississippi, two US states which abandoned lockdown over forty days ago, and are seeing some of the lowest Covid case totals in the US, and indeed, in the western world, […]
In a rare display of like-mindedness, the New Zealand Parliament a couple of weeks ago unanimously passed a bill adding three days to a working woman’s bereavement leave to cover the miscarriage or still-birth of a child. The new entitlement extends to spouses and partners, including a separated biological parent, to couples adopting an expected […]
District Headquarters Hospital Faisalabad is a 570-bed hospital in the second-largest city in the Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province. Like all hospitals in Pakistan, it is under pressure from the Covid-19 pandemic, but it has excellent facilities and trained staff. Its modern appearance made it all the more surprising that two Christian nurses have been […]
A video capturing admissions of systemic propaganda by a senior official in CNN may strike a familiar note with Irish media observers: what he describes can seem similar to how news is delivered by Ireland’s national and corporate media. Undercover journalists working with Project Veritas, released two videos (with more to come) of CNN Technical […]
Researchers in China and the United States have injected human stem cells into primate embryos and grown chimeric embryos for up to 20 days. Despite ethical concerns, the scientists says that the procedure has potential for providing insights into developmental biology and evolution, into disease and transplants, and into drug development. “As we are unable […]
The Super League could threaten the “football pyramid” (a new, trendy term), but forgive me for thinking the pyramid was only ever scaled by Big Money clubs anyway.
The Colombian legislature has once again failed to pass a law legalising euthanasia. Earlier this week a bill proposed by representative Juan Fernando Reyes Kuri needed to reach 85 votes in favour, but fell two votes short. Although Colombia is often described as a country where euthanasia is legal, the actual situation is complicated. In 1997 the country’s […]
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is an enigma to many in the lands formerly known as the “free West.” However, it would behoove us to take note of his opening remarks in his Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly (comparable to the U.S. State of the Union) on February 15, 2021. He began thus: Colleagues, Russia’s future and historical perspective […]
“Fear really drives numbers,” said Charlie Chester, a technical director at CNN, during a series of fake Tinder dates set up by Project Veritas. “Covid? Gangbusters with ratings,” Chester told the undercover journalist. “Which is why we constantly have the death toll on the side. It would make our point better if [the death toll] […]
When we made a commitment here at Gript to keep reporting on the case numbers in Texas, around the time when Joe Biden called their decision to re-open and abolish mask mandates “neanderthal thinking”, it didn’t occur to me that we’d have to find a new “Texan” photo to headline the story every week. Last […]