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by Will Jones
Elon Musk has formally taken over Twitter, triumphantly posting "the bird is freed" and immediately firing several top executives as he is set to overturn lifetime Twitter bans and restore freer speech to the platform.
A US judge has ordered Anthony Fauci, Jen Psaki and other leading federal officials to testify under oath on online censorship in a case brought by Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff against the Biden administration.
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 group of scientists has discovered that Antarctica's 'Doomsday' Thwaites glacier was melting twice as fast in the past than recently, for reasons that have nothing to do with human CO2 emissions.
One of Hong Kong’s last remaining pro-democracy parties said Wednesday that PayPal had terminated its account, citing unspecified “excessive risks”.
In September a climate paper sent shockwaves through the 'settled science' community by concluding a 'climate emergency' is not supported by the data. Now a state-owned media agency is trying to get it cancelled.
A bizarre 'fact check' from AFP accepts that Arctic summer sea ice has increased since 2012, but then says it is 'misleading' to report such an inconvenient fact.
The big difference between 2007 and 2022 is that bank runs no longer look like a queue but a convenient 'website maintenance' notice to prevent customer withdrawals. Is that why one has recently appeared at PayPal?
Twitter has censored Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo for tweeting about his recommendation against mRNA vaccines for 18-39 year old men due to an 84% increased risk of death from heart problems.
The evidence stacking up against the 'safe and effective' vaccine narrative makes the effort to shut down debates on pain of excommunication from the medical profession a clear and present danger to public health.
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