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.
Dr Roger Watson is concerned that a new move by academic publishing standards committee COPE is intended to weaponise publication ethics to ban dissenting academics from publishing their research.
A recent survey found that 82% of Harvard faculty identify as liberal, and only 1.5% identify as conservative. The survey is consistent with similar surveys from previous years and vast amounts of other data.
Dr Colin Alexander of Nottingham Trent University would welcome applications for a PhD programme entitled "Coronavirus Propaganda: Encouraging Public Behaviour within Political Communications".
A surprisingly candid report in the journal Science notes that researchers are reluctant to study vaccine side effects for fear of causing vaccine hesitancy. “Everyone is tiptoeing around it," one researcher said.
We're publishing an original piece today by regular contributor Dr Sinéad Murphy, an Associate Researcher in Philosophy at Newcastle Uni, about why it's a mistake to ask academics for advice about managing the pandemic.
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