On the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are the appalling responses of the Left to the attack on Israel, Nigel Farage saying he won't join the Tories and Laurence Fox getting arrested over Ulez.
73 teams of social scientists were invited to take part in a study where each team tested the same hypothesis using the same data. What happened? Results varied hugely and absolutely no consensus emerged.
Of all the people claiming to wage a war on wokery, Professor Eric Kaufmann has arguably gone the furthest – by setting up an academic faculty dedicated to the pursuit.
Hydroxychloroquine was dismissed as a Covid treatment early on and its supporters were censored. But now a new peer-reviewed study finds the cheap drug dramatically cuts Covid mortality after all.
Dr Chris Larkin warns of the dangers of low atmospheric carbon dioxide and proposes a radical global strategy to lift CO2 levels to prevent plant extinction.
In April 2022, M.L.R. Smith and Niall McCrae drew on their extensive Cold War knowledge to offer provisional analysis of the Russian war in Ukraine. Eighteen months later they look back at how their conclusions held up.
Supposedly it's all a big 'conspiracy theory' that by 2050 we shall be living in mud and grass huts, but the UN has just released a Net Zero report calling for a global move away from concrete and steel to mud and bamboo.
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.
In a special episode of London Calling, the usual argument is avoided by confining the conversation to cultural matters, including Anthony Trollope, Somerset Maugham, Foundation, One Piece and Generation V.
