News Round-Up
9 May 2025
UK “Shafted” by US Trade Deal
8 May 2025
"Tune in, turn on, grow up!" Jordan Peterson tells Joe Rogan it's time to put the permanent adolescence of the 1960s behind us. It's Peterson vs Peter Pan, says Prof James Alexander.
Advertisers have ganged up on new media, pushing a censorship agenda by withholding ad revenue. But now a new platform offers hope. Uncommon Ad Space seeks to connect advertisers with millions of new media users.
The journal Science has published an op-ed arguing that Peter Hotez shouldn't debate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. because public debates are simply "rhetorical matches". This view is mistaken, argues Noah Carl.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Joe Rogan's $100,000 vaccine debate offer to RFK Jr. and Peter Hotez, Howard from Take Take getting cancelled and Laurence Fox burning a Pride flag.
A scientist attacked Joe Rogan for spreading 'misinformation' about the Covid vaccines on his podcast by interviewing RFK Jr. Rogan responded by offering him $100,000 to debate RFK Jr on his show. The scientist bottled it.
The mainstream media largely ignored the recent Project Veritas Pfizer exposé, yet it has already received tens of millions of views on Twitter. So who is the real mainstream now? asks Nick Dixon.
Woke artists and musicians accused Joe Rogan of spreading COVID-19 misinformation and demanded he be kicked off Spotify. The result? He gained two million new subscribers.
Even if we just consider ‘misinformation’ surrounding the vaccines, the mainstream media comes out looking far worse than Rogan. Add in the ‘lab leak conspiracy theory’ narrative, and there’s really no comparison.
The BBC has used some of its taxpayer funding to 'reality check' Joe Rogan's Covid 'misinformation', claiming some episodes of the popular podcast have featured "false and misleading claims". Let's see.
When Jordan Peterson told Joe Rogan that climate models compound their errors like interest, green activists (often known in the climate change business as ‘scientists’) were predictably outraged.
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