In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are the ruination of Roald Dahl, the lampooning of Harry and Meghan and the chilling growth of woke AI.
The BBC 'disinformation correspondent' Marianna Spring follows a wearily familiar formula in her articles, pitching the wicked 'conspiracy theorists' against the enlightened adherents of the orthodox narrative.
The BBC recently ran a headline claiming Antarctica sea ice had hit a "new record low", but inexplicably missing was the fact that since 1979 the trend in the ice extent is "near zero" and not statistically significant.
Should we fear AIs becoming sentient? No says Ewan Morrison. We should be worried about being controlled by much less intelligent machines.
Global Disinformation Index, a group funded by George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, has lost financial support from National Endowment for Democracy for its role in demonetising conservative news outlets.
Use of palliative care drugs like midazolam skyrocketed to more than twice their usual levels during the first Covid wave, prompting speculation about their role in causing avoidable deaths.
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.
