Slowly and surely the forces of climate science disinformation reach out from their academic bases to throttle debate and proscribe off-message reporting. They have conveniently forgotten the lesson of Climategate.
Barton Swaim, an editorial writer for the Wall St Journal, has written a brilliant piece describing how America's liberal elite have persuaded themselves that any opinion they disagree with is simply 'misinformation'.
The US, UK and 60 other countries have signed a sweeping “Declaration for the Future of the Internet” which commits to bolstering "resilience to misinformation” and censoring “harmful” content.
First Google and now Microsoft Word has introduced an 'inclusive language tool', suggesting woke alternative to politically incorrect terms – so "assigned female at birth" instead of "biologically female".
There is no evidence adding fluoride to water helps teeth and plenty of evidence it is harmful – but all of this is suppressed by a medical establishment in up to its neck defending claims that don't withstand scrutiny.
Like the predictions of the progress of Covid, we need to ask what the limitations are to climate modelling. Too easily the model output is given the status of truth, and quickly becomes unchallengeable.
A new lockdown analysis by David Campbell and Kevin Dowd, entitled "The Abandonment of Good Government in the COVID-19 Crisis” has been published in the Studies in Applied Economics series from Johns Hopkins University.
The Online Safety Bill is a missed opportunity. It's not that it will make social media companies even more likely to ban dissenters. It's that it doesn’t do enough to check the already rampant censoriousness of Big Tech.
If we accept that European governments are entitled to censor RT on the grounds that it's pumping out 'misinformation', how long will it be before EU leaders use this as an excuse to ban other dissenting news sites?
Early in the pandemic a narrow scientific 'groupthink' took hold, which cast those questioning draconian policies as unethical, immoral and fringe – but this smokescreen is finally starting to dissipate.
