News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
If you thought transgenderism was crazy, wait till you meet the 'transableists' – able-bodied people who (sincerely, it seems) identify as disabled, with some even lopping off limbs or blinding themselves.
U.K. universities lead the world in spin, says Dr. Roger Watson, who describes some of the most egregious examples from his 30-year university teaching career.
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.
Identity politics has corrupted academic disciplines, says Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, and the arrival of an 'Afrochemistry' course at a U.S. university shows that even the hard sciences are not immune.
Children's rights advocates are finally waking up to the devastation lockdowns visited upon young people. But they still can't bring themselves to admit that schools closures were wrong and should never have happened.
There has never been a class of people who are freer to express their opinions than Left-leaning academics in 2023. So why do they think the Government is trying to censor them, asks Dr David McGrogan.
China gets a lot wrong, but a few things right, says Dr Roger Watson, who finds the country moving ahead in some ways but still lamentable in others.
73 teams of social scientists were invited to take part in a study where each team tested the same hypothesis using the same data. What happened? Results varied hugely and absolutely no consensus emerged.
Discriminatory practices are clearly being encouraged as part of DEI in academic publishing, says Amber Muhinyi, as publishers are collecting data on the race of authors and reviewers and presenting this to journals.
The Western world has gone all-in for wokeness, yet many on the Left still persist in their paranoid delusion that Right-wing ideas control the culture, says Dr David McGrogan.
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