About three weeks ago, we reported on a lengthy report and investigation by US Science writer Nicholas Wade, which suggested that the preponderance of the evidence suggests that Covid 19 did not, as scientists have suggested for nearly two years, transmit naturally from bat to human being. Instead, his work suggested, the evidence seems stronger […]
The young woman was desperate to get into university. She had chosen a science course, and felt it was grossly unfair that she would be judged on her ability to write essays which would go towards her Leaving Cert points. Writing was her only weak point. Plus, she had a social life! As a veteran […]
US-Chinese team of scientists have produced embryos that include human cells and cells of a nonhuman primate, the long-tailed macaque. What are we to make of such experiments? How are we to assess their ethical implications? Historical precedent The first thing to note is that this is by no means the first attempt to produce creatures that […]
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Developer Johnny Ronan has been refused permission for 1005 apartments in a 40-plus storey tower scheme for Dublin’s docklands. What do you think? Would the development be helpful in providing homes for people or does it make the situation worse? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below! Vote in our poll below and […]
On Friday, May 7, hackers attacked the computer systems of Colonial Pipeline, which operates a major gasoline pipeline that brings gasoline and jet fuel from Houston refineries up through the southeastern United States as far as New Jersey. Out of concern that the hackers might have obtained data enabling them to do physical damage to […]
The rule of thumb in politics in the European continent is that domestic failure politically bodes well for promotion to the upper echelons of power in Brussels. After the last election for example, the government very seriously considered spiriting (since left) Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy to Europe to remove him as a political liability at […]
Before the 1965 Immigration Act, the US was approaching zero population growth. The “land of the free and home of the brave,” as we call ourselves, has had below-replacement fertility since the early 1970s. We now see that fifty years of importing a new people merely delayed the inevitable. Immigration, which has slackened of late, […]
Teachers are being advised to introduce transgenderism to children in Junior Infants in new guidelines from the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) and the Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO). The NCCA have also told teachers of Junior and Senior Infants (where children are typically between 4 and 6 years old) to tell schoolkids […]
The Culture wars are currently raging across a number of different battlegrounds in the Western World, against the backdrop and sometimes intertwined narrative of the Covid-19 Pandemic and the variable responses to it. In recent weeks, Sport in all its forms has become embroiled in the Transgender debate including but not limited to the comments […]
Before we get to the meat of this article, let us begin by noting this moment of remarkable arrogance from the Health Minister: “The Health Minister said it’s “distasteful” that legal firms are already planning on suing the State on behalf of patients whose data has been breached. “I think it has been a little […]
Life being what it is, all of us will endure suffering, loss, grief, and hardship at some point during our time in this world. Very few of us, thankfully, will ever know pain like that suffered by Andrew McGinley. To lose one child is a cause of unimaginable grief. To lose three, and to lose […]