The Christian God is said to know your every thought, word and deed (Matthew 5:21-37). In the new religion of climate change and Gaia worship, every word is identified by ‘intelligent’ computers, assessed for theological compliance, compiled into bite-sized ‘fact checks’ – and sold to interested government and private parties. In this new world, the high priests of science have spoken, the matter is settled, and cancelling is frankly too good for heretics.
Since 2019, a U.K. company called Logically (founded by Lyric Jain in 2017, when he was just 21) has raised about £30 million to track what it calls “information threats” across 120 million domains and over 40 major social media platforms. Both climate and medical discourse is targeted using, it is said, artificial intelligence. A recent report was published suggesting that climate change ‘misinformation’ had been impacted by COVID-19 related ‘conspiracies’. Major company clients are said to be Facebook, TikTok and Instagram.
Bespoke packages are available for governments and private companies who fear their ‘brand’ may be under threat – and a recent Big Brother Watch report revealed that the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) entered into two contracts with the company worth £1,264,392 to monitor “disinformation” in 2021 and 2022. Big Brother Watch found that Logically “strayed significantly from [its] ‘disinformation’ remit to monitor and delegitimise domestic political dissent in [its]
reports”.
Fake news is said by Logically to have plagued governments all over the world for the last five years, “undermining the democratic process and fuelling populist political movements”. The company says that governments “are recognising an urgent need to tackle harmful and misleading online content”. As the catastrophic implications of Net Zero become generally apparent, it might be noted that political elites may well need all the help they can get in neutralising growing popular opposition.
In March 2021, Logically launched its ‘flagship’ threat intelligence platform “offering both analytical capabilities and countermeasure deployment to tackle mis- and disinformation”. The company says its mission is to protect democratic debate by providing access to “trustworthy information”.
On the climate front, misinformation is defined as “communication that contradicts or distorts the scientific evidence and expert consensus that the planet is warming as a result of human activity, and that this will lead to significant instability and damage to the environment”. The notions contained in this definition are of course anti-science – it is hard to find words that differ so much from the traditional Popperian view that all science should be testable and able to be proved false. If a conclusion cannot be proved wrong – as with climate models attributing single weather events to long-term climate change – it is simply an opinion, not a scientific hypothesis. Contradicting – or rather critically appraising – what is considered scientific evidence is what scientists do as they seek to discover the truth. Expert consensus is of course a purely political term. Perish the thought that the expert consensus should ever be contradicted. Like the Pope in Rome, the pronouncements of ‘experts’ when it comes to climate change are deemed infallible.
‘Fact-checking’ is much in vogue these days. There is obviously money to be made since the major social media platforms have partnerships with a variety of suppliers including mainstream media operations. Last year the Daily Sceptic was hit with what appeared to be a short but concerted campaign of climate fact checks from companies such as Climate Feedback, USA Today, Agence France-Presse and Reuters. These followed hot on the heels of fact checks of our lockdown and vaccine coverage by companies like Logically. Interested readers can look in the Daily Sceptic’s archive and note we replied to each attack, pointing out that no identifiable published facts had been proved to be untrue. (See Will Jones’s reply to a Logically fact check here.) Needless to say, the stories attracted various labels such as incorrect, false or misleading. After two particularly inept tries by Reuters, a polite note was sent to the company along the lines of “this nuisance must now cease”. It appears to have stopped, for the moment, but the damage has been done.
In spite of our stout rebuttals, legitimate, fact-based stories in the Daily Sceptic – and other inquiring publications – are plastered with warnings or worse, downplayed and cancelled in the online public spaces.
To give just one example, NewsGuard, a company that gives news publishing sites a score out of 100 according to how safe they are to advertise on, has given the Daily Sceptic 37.5 points because, in the words of one of its executives:
NewsGuard determined that based on the site having repeatedly published significantly false claims in articles and headlines and presenting other sources’ provably false claims as factual, the site fails our criteria for ‘does not repeatedly publish false content’ and ‘avoids deceptive headlines’, in addition to failing the criterion of ‘gathering and presenting information responsibly’.
In other words, we’ve been judged untrustworthy because of the fact checks carried out by Logically and others. That’s why we struggle to get a decent quantity of advertising (Google Ads has blocked us).
Logically appears to have been very busy of late building up a large portfolio of fact-check work. The methods used appear to revolve around extensive computer trawls picking up pre-programmed phrases disputing the ‘settled’ nostrums of climate science. For instance, natural causes play a part in the climate changing, and global temperatures have risen little in the last two decades. The company then tries to refute the story with other material picked up on the web.
Climate change and medical science seem to be big growth areas for Logically, but there are some odd selections in the examples of ‘disinformation’ the company offers in its marketing material. For instance: “Satellites don’t exist and the Earth is flat”, “Buzz Aldrin admitted that the moon landing didn’t happen”, and “World Economic Forum promotes paedophilia and claims paedophiles will save the world”. It is possible that there are one or two people who need clarification on these matters, but a more cynical explanation is that a few nutjobs are inserted to cast doubt on anyone who dissents from climate dogma, including those making factually robust claims.
For instance, the claim that climate change is not responsible for the 2022 Pakistan floods. This particular fact check by Logically doesn’t get off to the best start since it repeats the falsehood that one third of the country was submerged on August 31st. Any topographical map shows that this could not be true. According to satellite photographs and easily obtainable UN relief agency data, the figure was 8%. Climate change ‘deniers’ are said to have created a ‘false narrative’ about the floods in Pakistan, claiming that climate change is not the prime cause. The unhinged view of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is quoted, claiming the country is going through a “monsoon on steroids”.
The problem with attributing single event weather catastrophes to long-term changes in the climate caused by humans is that there is no proof. In fact, observations show that such events in Pakistan were frequent in the past.
The above graph, published recently by the World Bank, shows that rainfall has been stable in Pakistan for over a century. Last year’s floods were a tragedy with about 1,000 lives lost. But in the recent past – 1950, 1992, 1993 and 2010 – more lives were lost in floods. Flooding in Pakistan is not helped by recent massive deforestation.
A different tack is taken when examining claims that global warming ran out of steam over two decades ago. Climate sceptics are said to allege that there has been no warming recently, “even claiming that global temperature has decreased”. As regular readers of the Daily Sceptic will know, we state that rises in global temperatures have slowed considerably since the turn of the century, and we quote accurate satellite data. The latest UAH dataset up to January this year shows the current pause extending to eight years and five months.
Surface datasets have been retrospectively adjusted upwards and show a higher warming trend. They are also subject to considerable urban heat corruptions. Logically says it is a misrepresentation to quote from such a short period. Misrepresentation, even, to refer to the first great pause of the 21st century that lasted from around 2000 to 2012.
Of course, climate trends become established over lengthy periods. However, at a time when humans populations are being freaked out by politicians and green activists quoting imaginary climate model projections of up to 5°C warming by 2100, it is relevant to note that warming in the first 22 years of the century is barely more than 0.1°C.
The logic behind Logically’s intelligence, artificial or otherwise, is that quoting years of data to show the global temperature is stable after a short warming period is wrong, but attributing a single weather event in Pakistan to unproven long-term human-caused changes in the climate is somehow good science.
What price misinformation?
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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That top article is complete horsepoo. What it translates as is; ”1/5 of Brits weren’t daft enough to get a test to see if they had a specific cold virus, and especially not if they had no symptoms at all.”
Everyone will have had exposure to the damn thing by now, even if they were completely unaware of it. We’re over 3 years in FGS. Next!
My thoughts exactly Mogs. I will never have a test. If sticking a piece of bamboo into my brain passes for medicine they can stick it.
In August 2021 I was somewhat poorly with ‘flu-like symptoms for over ten days. So what laid me low? It is probably significant that I fell ill about four days after attending a large family gathering in which the vast majority were jabbed up so it’s a certainty that is where my infection came from – but I can’t say it was the C1984.
The population now has definitely been exposed to whatever bug might have been circulating so I agree:
“That top article is complete horsepoo.”
This is what happens when you give common colds and flu ‘special’ names LOL…!
Who knew so many would fall for the trick? That if you called a common respiratory virus Tom, Dick or Convid..it could take on special powers and elevate it to some higher level of consciousness that would fool the World?
The very same common virus, know about for thousands of years, and which all of mankind has always suffered from, and always will…..It’s a bit of evil genius really!!
“…even if they were completely unaware of it”?
This presupposes the existence of symptom-free Covid. Now we know there’s something odd about this virus compared to all previous respiratory pathogens, such as its transmission via aerosols. But other than a faulty PCR test, there’s nothing at all to substantiate that you can be a symptom-free “carrier” of Covid. Anyone I’ve ever known to test positive for Covid has felt shite for at least a week!
It’s clear to me that many many people are only testing AFTER the onset of specific symptoms. Many may test routinely also, but for instance in hospital workers who have to test every day, probability law dictates that there will be a high number of false positives generated, and these will be from those who test positive but feel completely fine (as in they don’t really have Covid. 1/5 of Brits sounds like a reasonable estimate.
A very good 15min excerpt on Joel Smalley’s ‘stack of a Jessica Rose interview, talking mainly about the jabs, VAERS and touching on lockdown harms. I’d like to watch the full thing though as he’s butchered the editing somewhat and Jessica is always a quality guest because she’s all about the data.
https://metatron.substack.com/p/necessary-safe-and-effective-expert
I agree, she’s always on the ball….but it’s never good news!!
She is reporting more bad news on the jabs in this article….
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/contamination-with-antibioticspike
Anandamide has published a Substack today that everybody needs to understand. The gist of the findings following sequencing of the Moderna and Pfizer bivalent COVID-19 products is that there is a high level of dsDNA contamination in the Pfizer products. This dsDNA contamination is in the form of circular expression vectors containing a spike gene and two antibiotic resistance genes for kanamycin and neomycin.
LOL I posted this earlier on the excess deaths article. We move in the same circles, me and you.
And while I’m on the theme of the Mail running crappy articles, apparently a study in the US demonstrates the non-death jabbed are more likely to get diabetes. Make of this what you will;
”Dr Alan Kwan, a cardiologist who led the study, said: ‘These results suggest that Covid vaccination prior to infection may provide a protective effect against diabetes risk.
‘Although further studies are needed to validate this hypothesis, we remain steadfast in our belief that Covid vaccination remains an important tool in protecting against Covid and the still-uncertain risks that people may experience during the post-infection period.”’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11749827/Now-scientists-claim-youre-likely-develop-DIABETES-youre-unvaccinated-against-Covid.html
I saw that. The comments section is encouraging.
No one buys this. The entire premise is so farcical, it makes the author look like a slavish dolt.
Do they bother with editors concerned with ludicrous claims on DM?
Eh, probably not actually…
Yes I had a quick peruse and thought so too, which is heartening. And who can take any doctor who is allegedly ”doing science” seriously if they say; ”we remain steadfast in our belief..” re the death jabs? I mean, that doesn’t sound like a man of science at all to me, it sounds like a science-denier who’s clinging onto the last wooden plank from his boat to save himself from drowning as his house of cards that he’s wedded himself to thus far has tumbled down. ”belief”?! He also sounds like a right flaming shill. Wonder what his conflicts of interest are if I could be bothered to check…The bioweapon jabs are just a faith-based system of dangerous lies, and I’m willing to bet he’s a bloody masktard to boot! As ever I’ll defer to legit cardiologists and await Drs McCullough and Malhotra’s opinion on this study’s findings.
And in other news –
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9107966/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dme.14631
Ha, yes exactly. Good find. I thought this topic of diabetes emerging post-jab seemed familiar. I saw it on Dr McCullough’s substack recently. I think he’s citing a different paper to yours;
”It has been said we are in a chronic disease epidemic of diabetes mellitus. Before COVID-19, approximately 10% of diabetes was juvenile Type 1, which is an auto-immune illness characterized by auto-antibodies against pancreatic islet cells. The remaining 90% is adult onset type 2 diabetes characterized by lifelong excess in adiposity and insulin resistance. Mass vaccination with mRNA and adenoviral DNA vaccines may change the epidemiology of diabetes as we know it. There are several papers emerging concerning new onset diabetes and diabetic ketoacidosis after taking a COVID-19 shot. Moon and colleagues reported a well characterized case of new onset type 1 diabetes in an adult temporally related to COVID-19 vaccination.”
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/new-onset-type-1-diabetes-after-covid
“Cancel the Vikings” – Rod Liddle in the Spectator wonders what took them so long to realise the “Vikings may have been a bit right-of-centre and therefore ripe for a spot of cancelling”.
It’s an excellent point. Television is awash with romanticising the blood, gore, rape and pillaging committed by the Vikings. Compare their portrayal to that of the evil English imperialists spreading Western infrastructure and culture.
I am English and proud to be.
I know it’s Rob Liddle so not meant to be taken seriously, but calling the Vikings ‘right wing’ is as ahistorical as saying Edward II was gay, purely projection of current prejudices back into history. I suppose romanticising them is just as bad really but Up Helly Aa looks like fun.
The Vikings didn’t even have a left or a right, they were seafarers, raiders, warriors, farmers and fishermen (not fisherthem!). Must we always attach these political attributes to explain behaviour from the past. It’s so dull. I imagine I would be described as a far right white supremacist just because I didn’t want an effin’ jab, don’t believe in the climate hype, want the mass immigration to stop, don’t believe the msm Ukraine narrative and I’m proud to call myself English and more but I’m just an ordinary fella…
Yep, we’re definitely on the same page Aethelred.
What is the point of the Sy Hersh story ATL…? It has no information that the original, which was already posted, didn’t have?
I’ll repost this, as I posted it later last night…(a re-tweet from El Gato Malo….)
BREAKING: A @Dept of Defense Source Speaking On The Condition Of Anonymity Told Me Details Of How @Joe Biden Ordered The Nordstream Pipelines Destroyed In June But Then Got Nervous & Changed Orders To PLACE THE BOMBS But Make Them Capable Of Later Detonation.
He DID NOT Inform Germany But DID Inform Norway Sweden and Denmark.
The CIA Informed Joe Biden Our Navy Had A Way To Place Bombs On Pipelines & Use A Raytheon Air Dropped Sonar Trigger At A Later Time.
The Navy Had Concerns That A Long Delay Between Placing The Explosives (C-4) & Detonating With A Sonar Drop Buoy Would Cause A Bomb Failure…
https://twitter.com/JohnBasham/status/1626078491560099840
As I said yesterday, I don’t know who this man is, or whether he’s a know reliable source..but then again there have been smears against the Pulitzer Prize winning Hersh……but obviously this story is still running…
This is curious….I haven’t read this anywhere….so are they dropping the ‘quackcine’ quietly?? Not entirely sure what to make of it….
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/find-a-walk-in-coronavirus-covid-19-vaccination-site/
…but it contains this …
Changes to coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine booster doses. After 12 February 2023 you will not be able to get a COVID-19 vaccine booster dose.
Some people who are at increased risk, for example because of age or certain medical conditions, may be offered a seasonal booster later this year. If you are eligible for this, the NHS will contact you when it’s your turn to get vaccinated.
If you follow the link you can find out walk-in-centres in your area…my area shown none at all…..!
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1626206903209717761
It’s funny, but worrying.
….genuinely hard to believe the position that utter moron holds…When will I wake up!?
I think the Veep is high as a kite most of the time. I mean this isn’t normal behaviour. She would be better off as a primary school teacher and removed well away from the levers of power.
Still no DS article on the Ohio poison death cloud? Where’s Greta when you want her?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ohios-apocalyptic-chemical-disaster-rages
Enjoying her stolen childhood I think…how dare she!
Re the Florida Surgeon General story ATL..this is a more expensive overview from Dr Robert Malone ….
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/warning-florida-department-of-health?sd=pf
https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/17/russia-to-introduce-digital-identity-cards/
Russia pushing Digital ID.
https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/16/discuss-so-whats-with-the-chemical-spills/
An update on the latest US train derailments. They are now more common than varieties of Billy’s viruses.
Short read.
According to Politifact, there are roughly 1000 train derailments in the US each year, so 5 inside a month is not unusual.
WTbloodyF!! 1000 train derailments? How? Why? I mean that is one heck of a lotta trains going horizontal. Imagine if that was over here, there’d be a massive outcry or some sort of reaction other than ‘Oh it’s just another of those pesky train derailments…lucky it ain’t nuclear waste! Ho hum’. !!!!!
LOL!….
https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/hobby-clubs-missing-balloon-feared-shot-down-usaf
A small, globe-trotting balloon declared “missing in action” by an Illinois-based hobbyist club on Feb. 15 has emerged as a candidate to explain one of the three mystery objects shot down by four heat-seeking missiles launched by U.S. Air Force fighters since Feb. 10.
The club—the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade (NIBBB)—is not pointing fingers yet.
But the circumstantial evidence is at least intriguing. The club’s silver-coated, party-style, “pico balloon” reported its last position on Feb. 10 at 38,910 ft. off the west coast of Alaska, and a popular forecasting tool—the HYSPLIT model provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—projected the cylindrically shaped object would be floating high over the central part of the Yukon Territory on Feb. 11. That is the same day a Lockheed Martin F-22 shot down an unidentified object of a similar description and altitude in the same general area.
In the interest of safety and security, HOLD THAT HANDRAIL!!
Have you seen the list of uk hotels full of illegals !! No way back soon ! What’s it all really for ??