News Round-Up
25 April 2024
by Will Jones
My BBC Complaint About Chris Packham’s Daily Sceptic Slur
25 April 2024
by Toby Young
The effort to ‘decolonise’ science is misguided, says Dr John Staddon, a former professor at Duke. The reason women and people of colour are under-represented in science has nothing to do with bias or discrimination.
Prof John Staddon presents three graphs suggesting that rising carbon dioxide levels might have a less immediate and dire impact on planetary temperature changes than previously thought.
A psychology professor has had a bright idea: take the key words that appear in your university's 'vision' statement, ask chatGPT to write a sentence with them in and see if it can do better. Not surprisingly, it can.
The smoking-costs-us folk seem to forget that we all die, even non-smokers. The facts about the health-care cost of smoking are in fact the opposite of the common preconception.
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