News Round-Up
23 October 2024
by Will Jones
Democrats Are No Longer Hiding Their Plan to Censor America
22 October 2024
by Will Jones
David Turver attended the Battle of Ideas in London at the weekend and found that Net Zero is losing: it simply doesn't have the facts on its side. Cracks are appearing in the cosy green Westminster consensus.
Prof James Alexander takes a look at the online tools and games developed by regime psychologists ostensibly to help identify 'misinformation' but really, he thinks, to train the next generation of Thought Police.
NewsGuard has been in touch again for our annual grilling on 'misinformation'. Suffice to say the errors are all NewsGuard's. Here's the charge sheet this time – and how we responded. Enjoy.
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.
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