Government-sponsored agency the Global Disinformation Index is censoring journalism by causing publications to be starved of advertising if they publish anything deemed "harmful", such as gender critical content.
All summer long there were "so great rains, that produced greater floods than in the memory of man", wrote John Locke in 1673. The 17th century was full of exactly the same climate catastrophising we hear today.
Dr Kirsty Miller was shocked to discover clinical psychologists sharing memes mocking their patients on social media. The problem, she argues, is the profession has been taken over by Critical Social Justice ideology.
Citations are the currency of academia and Google Scholar as the main way of tracking them. However, a new paper shows that it's possible to game Google Scholar and artificially inflate one's citation count.
David McGrogan, who attended the NatCon conference in London last year, marvels at the sheer stupidity of the Brussels mayors who tried to shut down this year's conference. Why give NatCon all that free publicity?
In the latest Weekly Sceptic, the talking points are the NatCon siege in Brussels, Iran's not-exactly-Pearl-Harbour attack on Israel and the rapid demise of the trans cult.
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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.
