News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
It would have been helpful if some of the MPs attending last week’s parliamentary debate on the proposed pandemic treaty had read it. Then they would recognise that the WHO's new legal powers are not a 'conspiracy theory'.
Only 3% of Australians know that the Great Barrier Reef is at a record high following two years of record growth, a survey has found – a reflection of how well the media and scientists keep the truth hidden.
There is no evidence that shielding benefited vulnerable people during the Covid pandemic, according to a study, with the high rate of in-hospital transmission blamed for the failure of the policy.
The BBC has publicised a disturbing claim in a Parliamentary report that racism has played “a key role” in the deaths of pregnant women, but the claim does not withstand the slightest scrutiny.
Retired Associate Professor of Physics Dr. Ralph Alexander is not impressed with the latest climate disasters report from CRED, which he says egregiously manipulates the data to remove the most inconvenient trends.
Responding to a GB News interview with Dr Tom Jefferson, UKHSA claims that the evidence shows masks work. But that conflicts not only with the findings of the Cochrane Review but also with its own published evidence.
From heat pumps to new bins, the Government keeps trying to force unworkable technologies and environmental wheezes on an unimpressed public who won't accept crap stuff just because it's 'green'.
The 2015 Zika panic, like the 2020 Covid panic, resulted in extreme global over-reaction. Yet when the smoke cleared it turned out there was no microcephaly epidemic. But the world just moved on and forgot.
By insisting on corrections to the Cochrane review of masks and claiming “victory” the New York Times is trying to subvert the whole scientific process while launching a personal attack on one of the authors.
Twitter owner Elon Musk has accused a BBC reporter of lying during an interview in a row over whether incidents of hate speech are increasing on the social network.
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