News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Headlines earlier this year proclaimed that catching Covid may knock up to 6 points off your IQ. A new study punctures this claim: there was no decline in cognitive test scores after Covid infection.
A recent study found that bad Covid infections may have reduced people's IQ by up to 6 points. However, the study didn't actually look at change in IQ scores and the findings are consistent with other explanations.
The Canadian Government used faked intelligence (aka disinformation) to frame the Freedom Convoy anti-vaccine-mandate protesters as violent extremists and justify invoking the Emergencies Act, an investigation has found.
A study has found that people who voted Remain in the EU referendum have higher cognitive ability. The authors suggest this is because the Leave campaign engaged in more "misinformation". But that doesn't stack up.
Many studies have documented ‘learning loss’ under lockdown. But what about intelligence itself – did that decline too? Yes, a new study finds that German children's intelligence test scores fell considerably.
A study has found that Americans with higher cognitive ability are more supportive of free speech and less concerned about political correctness. If the woke are less intelligent, how did they gain so much influence?
A recent study found zero correlation between intelligence and attitudes to climate change: 'alarmists' are neither more nor less intelligent than 'sceptics'. On the other hand, political views were a strong predictor.
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