Energy, Environment, Science, Fear
by Will Boisvert January 8, 2025 A recent study found evidence that male athletes who identify as women and undergo testosterone suppression have little advantage over female athletes. In reality, it’s just evidence that scientists will call fat, transgender couch potatoes “athletes” to serve a political agenda. The controversy over trans-identified men in women’s sports […]
by Will Boisvert In Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, progressive thought leader Naomi Klein sees rampant fascism in the resistance to COVID mandates—but reveals the Left’s profound lack of self-awareness. Few things have alarmed the Left recently as much as the populist Right’s resistance to COVID regulations, which to progressives epitomizes epistemic anarchism, […]
Being Goth doesn’t drive teens to suicide; being suicidal drives teens to Goth. The same may be true of transgenderism. by Will Boisvert Today’s youth transgender movement bears a strong resemblance to the Goth subculture of a decade or two ago. Both take root mainly among teens and young adults, both give misfits a way […]
Nowhere near as many people are dying in Sweden as the COVID death count would suggest. That may tell us something important about the impacts of the virus and the lockdowns. by Will Boisvert Throughout the COVID pandemic, the number of excess deaths in most countries has been a lot higher than the official number […]
People are not really afraid of coronavirus, and for good reason: The odds of dying of COVID if you catch it are no higher than your normal odds of dying within a year of something else. by Will Boisvert In my last piece on COVID-19 I waaay underestimated the death toll it would have. It […]
by Will Boisvert Thanks to my knee-jerk anti-alarmism I wrote some egregiously wrong blog comments about the COVID-19-19 pandemic back in March. I guesstimated the infection-fatality rate at a flu-like 0.1 percent, rather than the roughly 0.3 to 1 percent (depending on the demographic mix) that’s now reckoned for various populations by antibody testing. I’ve […]
by Will Boisvert Review of No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies by William T. Vollman. Viking, $40, (624 pages). We like to think that on vital questions of climate and energy a close engagement with facts can overcome a mistaken ideology. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case. Consider William T. Vollmann, a […]
by Will Boisvert How bad will climate change be? Not very. No, this isn’t a denialist screed. Human greenhouse emissions will warm the planet, raise the seas and derange the weather, and the resulting heat, flood and drought will be cataclysmic. Cataclysmic—but not apocalyptic. While the climate upheaval will be large, the consequences for […]