- “Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of COVID-19 Pandemic, Energy Department Now Says” – The Energy Department joins the FBI in saying Covid was likely spread via a mishap at a Chinese laboratory. Shocking news that no one could have predicted, from the Wall Street Journal.
- “‘Fit and healthy’ 21 year-old dies after Moderna” – The mum of a “fit and healthy” 21 year old from Melbourne who died after taking the Moderna vaccine has blasted authorities for mandating Covid injections, according to news.com.au.
- “Three Years Late, the Lancet Recognizes Natural Immunity” – The public-health clerisy has rediscovered a principle of immunology it derided throughout the pandemic, according to the Wall Street Journal.
- “Health chiefs ramp up global bird flu vaccine drive if cases spread” – Scientists are poised to push the button on a global bird-flu vaccination drive if a cluster of potential cases in Cambodia prove that significant human-to-human transmission is taking place, the Mail reports.
- “Treat Climate Anxiety by Encouraging Personal Climate Action” – Researchers from University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada have suggested encouraging people stricken by climate anxiety to act on their delusions is the path to mitigating their symptoms, according to WUWT.
- “Artificially Intelligent Offence?” – ChatGPT has been programmed to avoid giving accurate information if it may cause offence, says Lawrence Krauss in Quillette.
- “The problem with sensitivity readers” – Ella Nixon responds to the recent changes to Roald Dahl’s work and explains why there has been such a visceral public response.
- “Comparing Wokeness to Christianity Is an Insult to the Church” – To the extent social-justice extremism resembles a puritanical faith, it’s one that provides believers with no grace and no hope of redemption, says Matthew Rowley in Quillette.
- “Official joked I should be jailed for one of my scoops… with new law, I could be” – Harry Cole says the new National Security Bill could put journalists in jail, in the Sun.
- “My Tavistock exposé scared off 22 publishers” – Hannah Barnes reveals her struggles to get her book published after exposing the Tavistock clinic, in the Times.
- “Ethnicity fakers and the end of identity politics” – Our tortured efforts to eliminate racism render us as absurd as ever, says Hadley Freeman in the Sunday Times.
- “When did meat become a special ‘dietary requirement’?” – Vegan fare is creeping in as the default dining option, says Bryony Gordon in the Telegraph.
- “Humza Yousaf could save the Union” – Humza Yousaf’s incompetence could be a boon for the union, writes Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “Shamima Begum is not a victim of racism” – White ISIS fighter Jack Letts was punished in exactly the same way, says Stephen Knight in Spiked.
- “The Frank report is back ” – Due to public demand (not to mention unprecedented levels of political imbecility) the Frank Report is making a comeback, in the New Conservative.
- “Woody Harrelson calls out Big Pharma” – Woody Harrelson goes against the Hollywood grain by using his Saturday Night Live monologue to call out lockdowns and Big Pharma!
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