News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
BBC Verify should just explain things, and then let people decide for themselves, says David Frost in the Telegraph. But isn't that what the BBC is supposed to do anyway?
Leading conservatives are slamming the mainstream media for misrepresenting Trump's recent Ohio rally comments about the economy, accusing them of distorting a metaphorical 'bloodbath' into a literal one.
The New York Times has published an angry article blaming Ron DeSantis for the "steep cost" of his Covid response, despite having to admit Florida did better than the rest of the country.
The relentless catastrophising of 'extreme' weather is becoming almost a daily occurrence at the BBC, but the reality in the data is very different from the alarmist picture presented.
This morning the Ukrainian navy announced that the Snake Island border guards said to have been killed after telling a Russian warship to "go f*** yourself" are in fact alive and being held prisoner by the Russians.
Once more, a 'peer-reviewed' journal has to retract a bunch of papers because they are literally nonsense – generated by a computer algorithm. Why aren't publishers getting on top of this discreditable problem?
Amanda Pritchard, head of NHS England, claimed earlier today that the number of patients in English hospitals with COVID-19 is 14 times the number it was this time last year. Alarming if true, but it isn't. Not even close.
Why did so many liberal journalists repeat the fake news about gunshot victims in Oklahoma being unable to get treated because ER doctors were too busy dealing with patients who'd overdosed on ivermectin?
© Skeptics Ltd.