The new Netflix miniseries Death By Lightning based on the 1881 assassination of president James Garfield by a deranged office seeker is highly pertinent to our troubled times.

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Some thoughts on the shooting of Charlie Kirk, Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, and what the litany of campus shootings say about our violent, blood-soaked times.

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Today, parakeets are a common sight in public parks. But in 1930 the birds sparked a worldwide panic when it was discovered their faeces contained a deadly bacterium.

Click on my Substack to read my new post on the Great Parrot Fever Pandemic of 1930.

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I'm sorry to hear of the loss of your business. But why so much faith in the opinion of the German intelligence services? Your confidence is not shared by the WHO's scientific advisory group as you can see from this extract from its recent report:

“Uncritical”? Perhaps you didn’t read it properly.

Forget talk of "the China virus" and a "lab leak", bats –and the trade in wild animals – are a far more likely source of the Covid pandemic. Today, I write about the natural origin theory and sketch scenarios of how the virus could have got to Wuhan.

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We all cry from time to time but why? Read my latest Substack post where I explore the evolutionary mystery of tears (for paying subscribers only).

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Five years into the biggest pandemic in a century it is understandable that some of us should wish to move on and forget. But the shadow cast by Covid-19 is a long one and many of us are still trying to make sense of it.

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Following Trump’s decison to slash 1,200 jobs at the National Institues of Health, I am reissuing my podcast series on the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic on my Substack. In particular, I urge you to listen to the episode, ‘Resurrectng the Killer’...

A blue picture to brighten up a blue Monday

Strait of Gibraltar looking toward Tangier

RFK Jr’s confirmation as US health secretary is a dark day for public health. The question is, how far will the rot go?

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“You’ve said you’re pro vaccines but are you pro these onesies?”demands Bernie referring to the anti-vax kids clothing range sold by RFK Jr’s Children’s Health Defense non-profit.

“I’m pro vaccines’ insists Bobby.

Judge a man by what he does, not what he says.

Once a shill, always a shill.

Introducing the President (non-elect) and mini-me.

RFK Jr, who has promised to wean Americans off processed food if he becomes head of the Department of Health and Human Services, forced to share a Big Mac with Trump and Musk.

Shit in, shit out, I guess 🍔💩

If you love plants and the natural world I can highly recommend Simon Parkin’s latest book, The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad, which tells the incredible story of the Leningrad Plant Institute and the efforts botanists there went to save its collection of seeds from the Nazis. Epic

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