After nearly two decades of budget overruns, delays, and technical glitches, the James Webb Space Telescope is almost ready to launch. Its latest delay is just for one day, which means it could launch on Christmas.

In a last act of defiance against science and reason, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, the politician who told residents to rush to bars for one last evening because the Trump administration was forcing him to close them down during the pandemic, requiring a Navy hospital ship to be sent weeks later to deal with all of the ICU patients, has now decreed that no new gas stoves, boilers and heaters can be installed in new buildings or any that undergo renovations.

A jury in San Bernardino can't believe that Donnetta Stephens’ cancer was caused because she used Roundup.

In a post-COVID-19 world, even California, the most anti-science state in the union, which once tried to ban Happy Meals and Golf and claimed the science was on their side, with "may cause cancer" labels on 165,000 products, including the buildings the products are sold in, is no longer willing to accept that plants are people. The Bayer company has won another glyphosate case, even with a jury that can be swayed using emotion.

The FDA is encouraging consumers who have purchased Black Oxygen Organics fulvic care power or tablets to immediately stop using the products and throw them away. Not because they are ridiculous supplements that the Clinton administration exempted from ethical truth in advertising, but because they contain lead and arsenic. Those are also natural, organic, Non-GMO, and vegan but can kill you or give you brain damage. In return for that, they won't prevent Alzheimer's or anything else hucksters promise.

That is why even in the supplement industry exempted from most oversight, FDA will bring the hammer down on products with those.

An abstract published by the American Heart Association suggests a correlation between mRNA vaccines and heart disease.

They even featured it on November 13th at their AHA Scientific Session 2021.

It is a bad look for Peter Daszak, whose EcoHealth Alliance helped funnel American coronavirus research funding to the Wuhan lab implicated in the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, that even staunchly progressive sites like Undark are criticizing him, because he implicates the Biden administration by association.

But it is a valid concern, and other groups have to be applauded for noting it, even without diving into conspiracies.

If you are old enough to vote, you should know that government agencies do not fire entire departments when the White House changes residents. Instead, most are career staffers and it does not matter who the president is, they are doing their jobs, and many do them quite well.

When China makes the news with SARS-CoV-2 quarantines, it is never good. The first time was because the government had arrested Li Wenliang, a whistleblower who sounded the alarm that something pretty awful was spreading through Wuhan, and he died in early February of 2020.

They kept him in jail for 30 days while they told the WHO to tell the world that there was nothing to fear. American journalists and social media dutifully repeated it and even said the US government was racist for wanting to cut flights from China in early 2020. Li was long dead by then. Soon, millions followed while the communist dictatorship scrubbed 15,000 coronaviruses in databases from its Wuhan labs and closed the wet market where they assured WHO the disease could not have originated.

In America, anyone can sue over anything and when it comes to a jury trial, facts and the law matter a lot less than emotion.

Though spectacular jury verdicts get the media attention, it's in the appeals process that science and precedent enter the picture. So a gigantic award resting on the allegation that a pharmaceutical company violated the state's public nuisance law because they marketed opiods - as required by federal law, because consumer groups claimed a few decades ago that sales reps talking to physicians directly removed consumer choice - and that it was wrong for J&J to be held liable on those grounds.