You made me look, yep, Conservapedia is still a thing.

He was sacked by Boris Johnson, someone who was himself sacked several times for lying.

The Cabinet Office has rejected Cummings' claims.

A little difficult for me in that he didn't stand for First Minister of Scotland.

I'm not qualified to diagnose people, especially over the Internet. How about you?

If one person says that bleach is a good way of defeating COVID, while the very, very large majority of doctors and medical scientists say that this is bollocks and that vaccination is the way forward, I am going to follow the medical advice. Similarly, if the same person says, on the basis of something he heard from one other person in his administration, that Tylenol causes autism, against the vast amount of evidence that says there is no link, then I am going to follow the evidence.

If someone rails against "windmills", and calls climate change the biggest hoax in the history of the world, while the 91% (all scientists) to 100% (climate scientists with high levels of expertise, 20+ papers published) agreed human activity is causing climate change, then I am going to accept that anthropogenic climate change is actually occurring.

As the UK minister for health said yesterday, "So I would just say to people watching, don’t pay any attention whatsoever to what Donald Trump says about medicine. In fact, don’t even take my word for it, as a politician – listen to British doctors, British scientists, the NHS".

This is largely a product of the price of energy being linked to the price of gas, most of which we import. If that link could be broken, then we would see energy prices fall.

While I am from the UK, I do read a variety of publications from the US and the rest of the world.

It would seem that there is a general anti-science movement in place in the US that is becoming stronger, vaccinations is one part of it, attacks on climate science is another. Couple that with the onslaught on education, and universities in particular, and all I can see is a gradual decline in the ability of the US to compete when it comes to science.

The man who targeted and killed Democratic state lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark in their home in Minnesota in June was a Trump supporter.

The man charged with the attempted assassination of Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor, Josh Shapiro, in April was a Trump supporter.

The man convicted of orchestrating a series of shootings at the homes of four Democratic elected officials in New Mexico in 2022 was a Trump supporter.

The man who tried to kidnap then Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and assaulted her husband, Paul, in 2022 was a Trump supporter.

The men who wanted to hang Mike Pence on Jan 6, 2021, were Trump supporters.

The man who killed the son of Obama-appointed District Judge Esther Salas in 2020 was a Trump supporter.

The men who were convicted of trying to kidnap Michigan’s Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, in 2020 were Trump supporters.

The man who sent pipe bombs to the homes of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and other top Democrats in 2018 was a Trump supporter.

The man who killed left-wing activist Heather Heyer after driving his car into a crowd of counter-protesters in Charlottesville in 2017 was a Trump supporter.

Tesla has already dropped a huge amount of sales in Germany. Will this be the last nail in the coffin?

This happened in 2019 in the UK, when Boris Johnson was elected, and all the "one nation" Tories disappeared from the scene.

The Tory party is effectively dead, with Reform exploding from its chest.

For those that don't know, Reform is run by Nighel Farage, branded by Jamie Raskin as a “Putin-loving free speech imposter and Trump sycophant”

Two weeks? That's very generous of you.

The man can't even work out what a video refers to.

Trump's mix of extortion, and bullying will work in the same way when it comes to politics. In the short term, countries may suck up to him, but I suspect longer term plans are being made to reduce the need to bow to US hegemony.

Elsewhere on Slashdot, there is a thread about "boring history" that is generated by AI.

In Our Time is presented by real people, all of whom are experts in their field. And it is definitely not boring.

Ryan Walters has a test you will need to take if you are from a "woke" state and want to teach in Oklahoma.

It was developed in conjunction with Prager "University".

There was a spot on the UK radio news programme Today this morning by Melvyn Bragg, he presents In Our Time, now available as podcasts. All the programmes, which include ones on history, are presented by real people who are experts in their field.

Assuming that there are still scientists left in the US who are able to restore it, if and when the time comes.

I see Trump as Stalin, with Kennedy as Lysenko. Let's not forget how widely science was repressed during Stalin's time.