Author Archives: Richard Fernandez

The problem with current CRISPR-based gene drive systems is that they can spread indefinitely—potentially affecting every population of the target species throughout the world. It’s unclear how such “global” drives can be safely tested, much less whether nations will ever agree to use them. To return power to the hands of local communities, we devised …

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“You gotta go where the action is,” Fauci explained on Tuesday, as he faced questions about the increasingly popular lab-origin theory from Republicans during testimony before a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee. … “It would have been almost a dereliction of our duty if we didn’t study this,” Fauci said on Tuesday, meaning that …

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Europeans gasped with horror when Belarusian authorities forced a Ryanair flight to land in Minsk to detain a young journalist.

Is it time to end sanitation theater? Hygiene theater will end right around the time security theater does. Child in 2019 taking off his shoes prior to boarding plane: “Daddy what’s 9/11?’ Child turning briefly from Zoom in 2039: “Daddy, what’s air travel?”

Why are Biden and the media suddenly open to the former “conspiracy theory” of a lab origin of the coronavirus pandemic. First it was never purely a conspiracy theory. From the beginning many reputable experts urged the possibility be investigated. What may be happening is the tide is turning within the bureaucratic scientific establishment. As …

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It has all of the elements of a Jason Bourne plot: A commercial flight carrying a dissident journalist is intercepted by a MiG-29 fighter jet under orders from the strongman president of Belarus.

New at the Belmont Club. Religions in disguise.

You forgot to mention high tuition and a fantasy world vieew.

The further difficulty with using virtue as a source of foreign policy legitimacy is that the Biden administration keeps denouncing America as racist, neo-colonial, greedy capitalist, transphobic, patriarchal society only recently ruled by a new Hitler.

So they can report what should have been said rather than what was.

The flying saucer always lands in the Washington mall. Or does it? What would you do if an event occurred which upser your entire stock of conventional wisdom?

Not peace but protracted war. The new Hamas rocket arsenal creates a persistent threat as do clashes make the possible ‘new normal’ an indefinite low-intensity conflict.

Anthony Fauci said though the US is not requiring everyone get the COVID-19 vaccine, he expects individual businesses will.

“How to crop an image is a decision best made by people.”

GAZA CITY — As the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas took effect at 2 a.m. local time on Friday, thousands of Palestinians gathered in the streets of Gaza City to celebrate what Hamas supporters were calling a defeat of the Israeli forces. NYT Biden hails ceasefire as a “genuine opportunity for peace”.

The Washington Post, which broke the news Thursday afternoon, reported that Cuomo encouraged his brother against resigning during strategy sessions with the governor’s communications team and lawyers. CNN https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/05/20/media/chris-cuomo-andrew-cuomo-strategy-sessions/index.html?__twitter_impression=true&s=09

“Investigation finds Martin Bashir used ‘deceitful’ methods to secure 1995 Panorama interview with Princess Diana”

Books: Basil’s War, by Stephen Hunter. A daredevil British agent goes behind enemy lines to search for a religious text that might hold the key to ending the Second World War.