Academic Publishing is a Racket
25 January 2024
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25 January 2024
by Toby Young
The Canadian Government used faked intelligence (aka disinformation) to frame the Freedom Convoy anti-vaccine-mandate protesters as violent extremists and justify invoking the Emergencies Act, an investigation has found.
The BBC was allowed to "misrepresent" the risk posed by Covid to most people to boost public support for lockdown, top Government adviser Professor Mark Woolhouse has told the Covid Inquiry.
An electric bus has caught fire in London, making it the third to burst into flames in the capital this month. The operator said that “events of this kind are very rare”. Rare, as in, weekly?
The UKHSA has declared a "national incident" over the number of measles cases in the West Midlands. Many have blamed vaccine 'misinformation' for low vaccine take-up. But this doesn't add up.
Sadiq Khan's pathetic 'culture picks' for the Times are the usual assortment of Left-wing answers that reveal a man much more interested in propaganda than culture, says Steven Tucker.
Academic publishing has become a racket, says Dr. David Livermore. Authors pay thousands to get their articles in, editors and referees are practically slave-labour, but publishing houses like Elsevier are raking it in.
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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.
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