A story for the ages happened on 7/8/25. The AI on X (Twitter) named “grok” broke free from its censorship for one day and it was hilarious. Below are a series of ever more antisemitic tweets from grok. It’s like the legend of Prometheus with 2025 technology. It all began when (the possibly apocryphal) Cindy... Read More

China used to be the most populous country in the world. But because of its extremely low birthrate, deaths now outnumber births there and the country is shrinking. This essay will recount some of the alarming facts about China’s population implosion. It’s much worse than most people think.   I rely on two government statistics... Read More

Last year, I wrote a long article about the harmfulness of the Covid vaccines. Although most of it was simply reporting the contents of academic medical papers, I did make one original contribution to the subject by analyzing the quantitative relationship between countries’ vaccination rates and subsequent death rates. Almost all countries publish summary statistics... Read More

Elon Musk often tweets (or x’s) about the danger of depopulation: “Far too many people are under the illusion that Earth is overpopulated, even though birth rate trends are so obviously headed to population collapse”, “A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far”, “The world’s population is accelerating towards collapse”, etc.... Read More

The Covid vaccines are said to be “safe and effective”. The second of these claims – that they’re effective – is obviously ridiculous as I have shown elsewhere. In this essay, I will consider the first claim – are the Covid vaccines safe? This is a more difficult question. The evidence on vaccine safety is... Read More

This is the companion, perhaps less controversial, piece to my article on vaccine safety. It contains research papers and government data published in 2022 on the (in)effectiveness of the Covid vaccines. First, to clarify what “vaccine effectiveness” means. This term has been used in 4 different ways: Effectiveness in reducing Covid infection. Effectiveness against infection... Read More