News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The Royal Society, the world's oldest scientific academy, has honoured Anthony Fauci, and in doing so confirmed its role as the guardian, not of empirical discovery, but politicised institutional Science.
Shifts in carbon isotopes are said to prove that humans are altering the balance of the atmosphere and causing a climate 'emergency'. But new research dismisses human involvement as "non-discernible".
Cambridge University’s Centre for Climate Repair has a team in the Arctic busily experimenting with spraying seawater over the ice to try to thicken it in a plan branded "insane" and "dangerous".
Scientists are modelling climate change on made-up alien planets and mainstream science media are promoting this nonsense to push the alarmist agenda.
It's not just Earth that is at risk from carbon dioxide emissions, it seems. Meet the scientists who worry about the impact climate change will have on alien life.
A diversity row has erupted at the U.K.'s national AI institute after 180 staff signed a letter questioning the "inclusivity" of the appointment of four male senior scientists.
The Government did not pay sufficient attention to the long-term collateral damage of lockdowns, two thirds of British scientists surveyed believe.
Scientific peer-review is failing science, says Peter Civan. After peer-reviewing papers for 10 years, Dr Civan says he is no longer willing to support a system that serves only the interests of publishing businesses.
Identity politics has corrupted academic disciplines, says Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, and the arrival of an 'Afrochemistry' course at a U.S. university shows that even the hard sciences are not immune.
Technology has become a cult that seeks absolute control as we yearn for certainty. But the Post Office Horizon scandal shows that, like the gods of old, it will always let us down, says Guy de la Bédoyère.
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