Tag: Conspiracy Theories

In 2019, almost 200 people contracted gonorrhoea every day. Gonorrhoea is pretty nasty, fairly infectious, widespread and on the increase. What’s so special about monkeypox, that we're making a fuss about 70 cases?

In April 2020 the New York Times published the Red Dawn emails – a thread from early 2020 that included senior US officials discussing the emerging situation. Is this the closest we'll get to a lockdown conspiracy?

A new report cuts through the lazy stereotypes of Covid narrative sceptics to ask sceptics themselves what they think. The picture is a long way from the 'selfish' 'conspiracy theorists' painted in much of the media.

We're publishing an original article on the Daily Sceptic by freelance journalist Chris Morrison disputing the idea that anyone who challenges climate change alarmism is a "conspiracy theorist". Some of them are actually quite respectable.

Boris Johnson has executed so many U-turns in the past 18 months, it’s as if his solution to the supply chain problem is to retrain as an HGV driver. But even by his standards, the past few days have been an omnishambles.

The authors of the Lancet letter from last February have penned a new letter for that journal. However, they mischaracterise the lab leak theory, and don't apologise for calling it a "conspiracy theory".

In a new essay, the science writer Nicholas Wade argues that the lab leak theory provides a far better explanation of the available facts than the alternative, natural origin theory.

No sooner had the WHO yesterday published its report into the origins of the Wuhan coronavirus, the Director General was making a statement distancing the organisation from what observers called a "whitewash".

A former director of the CDC has told CNN he believes SARS-CoV-2 escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. This used to be dismissed as a 'conspiracy theory', but no longer. It's the subject of Matt Ridley's next book.