Who really discovered DNA’s structure? Five people.
Matt Ridley
Tuesday 28th February marks the 70th anniversary of – in my view – the most important day in the entire history of science. On a fine Saturday morning with crocuses in flower along the Backs in Cambridge, two men saw something surprising and beautiful. The double helix structure of DNA instantly revealed why living things were different: […]
The case for the lab leak theory grows stronger by the day
Matt Ridley
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/02/27/the-case-for-the-lab-leak-theory-grows-stronger-by-the-day/ The case for the lab leak theory grows stronger by the day. Matt Ridley The news that the US Department of Energy has changed its mind about the probability of a lab leak as the source of covid-19 on the basis of new evidence has sent shock waves through the scientific […]
Matt Ridley
The Department of Energy in the United States, which has responsibility for a network of national scientific research laboratories, has changed its mind. It now thinks it likely the pandemic began in a Chinese laboratory, not in a seafood market, on the basis of new evidence it has seen. It has not divulged what […]
The World Health Organisation is putting us all in danger
Matt Ridley
The failure to speedily investigate Covid’s real origins leave us vulnerable to another pandemic The World Health Organisation, the body charged with finding how a virus from central China killed more than ten million people and upended the world economy, has dropped the ball. An article appeared in Nature magazine this week, headlined “WHO […]
Matt Ridley
In Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll brought the dodo back to life. The extinct, fat, flightless pigeon arranged a famous running race in which “all shall have prizes”. Now an American tech entrepreneur, Ben Lamm, plans to bring the dodo back to life for real, along with some other extinct species like woolly mammoths, […]
