In the last Weekly Sceptic podcast of the year, the talking points are Charles's lacklustre multicultural King's speech, the arrival of thought crime in the UK and the censorship of science during the pandemic.
Last year, 22 countries experienced large outbreaks of measles, thanks to the interruption of routine immunisation programmes. It’s yet another unintended consequence of the lockdown policy.
Just Stop Oil protestors were arrested up to seven times each in yet more evidence that the police and courts are powerless to stop eco-protestors stopping traffic and glueing themselves to buildings.
Seventy of England’s acute hospital trusts are spending £8,220,783 a year on equity, diversity and inclusion officers, according to the Telegraph. Meanwhile, 7.2 million people are waiting to start treatment.
Latest Twitter Files reveal the company suppressed “true but inconvenient” data about the COVID-19 vaccines at behest of government officials, even when the tweets were posted by eminent medical scientists.
How much of science is reproducible? It depends how you approach the question, but some papers have found that more than half of studies in psychology fail to replicate. Other social sciences aren't much better.
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the virus and the vaccines, the ‘climate emergency’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
