News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Ed Miliband’s decision to give the Mallard Pass a 3,000-acre-solar farm is like forcing a baby to have tattoos for its own health, says Joanna Gray. Trouble is, too few these days care for the beauty of nature.
How can Prof Ülf Büntgen reconcile advocating for separating science and activism while participating in a study urging urgent international agreements to cut carbon emissions? wonders Charles Rotter.
The effort to ‘decolonise’ science is misguided, says Dr John Staddon, a former professor at Duke. The reason women and people of colour are under-represented in science has nothing to do with bias or discrimination.
Free speech is under attack in the politicised world of climate science, says Chris Morrison, as disgust at the recent cancellation of Alimonti et al. by Springer Nature continues to grow.
Climate researchers are self-censoring and adapting their research to fit in with the climate alarmist narrative in order to be published in the top journals, a climate scientist whistleblower has said.
Shocking details of suppression in science have come to light with a recent leak showing how a group of activist scientists secured the retraction of a paper that said a climate emergency was not supported by the data.
A majority of male monkeys swing both ways, a study has found. The authors try to draw lessons for humans. But when the study also found that all relationships from age 10 upwards were sexualised, is that a good idea?
We know scientific journals have been engaging in woke activism. A new study finds that the journal Nature's endorsement of Joe Biden made ordinary Americans see the editors as more biased and less knowledgable.
Adults have sharply higher risks of being diagnosed with heart, skin and psychiatric conditions for at least 90 days after they receive Covid jabs, a study in Nature of almost 300,000 people in California has shown.
How much of science is reproducible? It depends how you approach the question, but some papers have found that more than half of studies in psychology fail to replicate. Other social sciences aren't much better.
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