- “Monkeypox to get a new name, says WHO” – According to BBC News, scientists have agreed there is an urgent need for a ‘non-discriminatory and non-stigmatising’ name. Oh dear. They’ll come for chickenpox next.
- “URGENT ALERT: Virologists issue urgent new Monkeypox warning about… racism” – Eugyppius isn’t convinced: “Monkeypox is a virus that is endemic in animal hosts in Africa, and to an unknown degree probably also among people in Africa. Monkeypox is an African virus; Africa is where Monkeypox comes from. I never cared that much about this fact before, but I do now. Good job idiot virologists.”
- “The Pfizer clinical trial in kids six months to four years-old is an embarrassment” – Toby Rogers on his Substack page analyses the latest results and finds numerous serious problems.
- “The Emergence of Neo-Fascism in Public Health” – Fascism is the art of hiding the truth behind a façade of wholesome virtue, says Dr. David Bell in Brownstone.
- “Operose Health: What I saw working undercover at a GP surgery” – BBC Panorama reporter Jacqui Wakefield worked as a receptionist at an Operose Health GP practice and says she observed less qualified staff seeing patients, rather than doctors, without adequate supervision.
- “Should the patient really get the drug?” – Dr. Sebastian Rushworth discusses why doctors are so poor at weighing benefits versus harms of drugs, why this causes them to prescribe far too much, and what do about it.
- “Climate-Change Censorship: Phase Two” – Progressives first demanded that social media platforms silence critics of climate alarmism. Now White House National Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy wants them to censor content on the costs of a force-fed green energy transition, warns the Wall Street Journal in a leading article.
- “How the green agenda fed the Grenfell disaster” – Residents’ safety was sacrificed in the push to meet climate goals, argues James Heartfield in Spiked.
- “This senseless Government is a waste of energy” – The Government’s vainglorious obsession with Net Zero is now being felt in the food sector, writes Patrick Benham-Crosswell in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Hydrogen Is Unlikely Ever to Be a Viable Solution to The Energy Storage Conundrum” – No one knows how much extra our energy would cost if we forcibly got rid of all hydrocarbons and shifted to wind and solar backed up by ‘green’ hydrogen, says Francis Menton in Watts Up With That?
- “Interview: Frost on Johnson’s future, tax cuts, admiring Cummings, Net Zero – and the abuse he has faced as he mulls his political future” – In an interview with ConservativeHome, Lord Frost says he deplores the restrictions on freedom of expression during the lockdowns of recent years and opposes the target of reaching Net Zero by 2050.
- “The police have bowed to the mob” – We cannot have a situation where groups feel they can obstruct the law with impunity, and we certainly can’t have one where they are largely correct in this belief, says Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Spectator.
- “Wagwan? Street slang to be Britain’s main dialect” – The Telegraph reports that multicultural London English, which has roots in the capital’s migrant communities and has largely replaced traditional cockney, could be the future of British English, according to ‘experts’. Erm, because cockney was formerly spoken everywhere?
- “How the Royal Academy uncancelled me” – Jess De Wahls in UnHerd on her surprising restoration by the woke institution.
- “Being ‘intersex’ isn’t that common” – People aren’t using the term correctly, says Ellen Pasternack in UnHerd.
- “The Boy Scouts Succumbs to the Woke Mob” – From July 1st, it will become mandatory for participants seeking to become an Eagle Scout – the highest rank attainable in the BSA – to intimately familiarise themselves with the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion, writes John Mac Ghlionn in the Epoch Times.
- “The new war on Islamism” – The mere fact that Muslims in 2022 would venture to release a film about Muhammad’s daughter is an encouraging step in the ongoing Muslim reformation, says Ayaan Hirsi Ali in UnHerd.
- “Boosters for healthy children” – Watch Dr. John Campbell compare and criticise the latest advice of the JCVI and CDC.
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