News Round-Up
26 July 2024
The Guardian has published a 'fact check' of Donald Trump's claims about inflation and immigration. Just one problem, says David Craig: the 'fact check' gets its facts wrong. Who will guard us against the Guardian?
It's 'advocate', not 'advocate for'. Just because an error is common, doesn't stop it being wrong. And no, you can't 'advocate against'; that's an oxymoron. Can we at least get our words right, pleads Will Jones.
"The climate scare will crumble sooner than you expect," says Climate: The Movie Producer Tom Nelson. "There's not going to be a moment where people say 'we were wrong'. They're just going to stop talking about it."
Dr. Raphael Lataster continues his run of having debunkings of vaccine-hyping modelling studies published in top journals. His latest in the BMJ fact-checks a WHO garbage-in-garbage-out model.
The claims by Government Covid adviser Susan Michie that she never advocated use of fear to influence behaviour are contradicted by her published statements and papers, says Dr David Seedhouse.
Contrary to the X memes, the claim that the WHO is largely funded by private sources is not only false but wildly misleading, says Robert Kogon. In fact, it is around 90% funded by states.
"I’m not a Covid conspiracy theorist. I was right." Allison Pearson defends her pandemic record against detractors who still haven't noticed that sceptics got it right and conformists were consistently wrong.
Colds, flu and Covid are mainly spread through the air and not by sharing cups and getting close to one another, World Health Organisation experts have suggested in a new report.
Chris Packham's five-part series last year on the BBC called Earth, which warned of a coming CO2-driven "mass extinction", was propaganda not science, says Chris Morrison.
Now Reuters runs a 'fact check' of a Daily Sceptic Arctic sea ice story. Being accused of "cherry picking" by an outfit that urges journalists to claim climate change makes mangoes taste worse is beyond ridicule.
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