ethical & philosophical

New York Times journalists want news stories vetted prior to publication. They want mandatory & ongoing newsroom sensitivity training. The Gray Lady is now a place where journalists fear each other.

With its threats of fire and brimstone, environmentalism is the new religion. But where's the humility, the compassion, the spiritual transcendence?

Like colonialists of old, affluent green activists impose their will on poor people in impoverished countries who have no means of defending themselves. 

The head of the WHO isn't annoyed his organization learned about the coronavirus from third parties. He isn't angry it had to ask China for info more than once. In fact, he's been covering for China.

After implying for months that China followed international rules, the World Health Organization backtracks.

China gave the WHO permission to send in investigators, but wouldn't allow them near the affected area after they'd arrived. They departed empty-handed, two weeks later.

Plastics saved sea turtles, when tortoiseshell luxury goods became mass market items. 

11 presentations - based on private, agenda-driven research - were delivered to the world's largest gathering of climate scientists.

A preposterous climate yarn has taken center stage.

Forty thousand Brazilians have died of the coronavirus in the past 40 days.