The Australian Academy of Sciences has made a disgraceful call for broadcast news and the internet to censor what it called “harmful disinformation” about climate change, the Great Barrier Reef and Covid vaccines.
In his Spectator column this week, Toby looks at the "head-scratcher" of how progressives seek to both politicise science and appeal to it as an objective source of justification for measures like lockdown and Net Zero.
When you bend the truth for the greater good, in the long term this is a loser strategy, because truth will out, your credibility plummets, and you’re worse off than if you’d admitted your doubts at the start.
Disappointingly, the High Court has dismissed the application for judicial review of vaccinating 5-11 year-olds, confirming the court’s absolute reluctance to scrutinise Government decisions where Covid is involved.
Some say insect and bird numbers have dropped precipitously in recent decades. Others point out some species are burgeoning. What's the truth about the 'insect apocalypse'?
New data show Covid infections and deaths in New Zealand have overtaken Australia in the latest Omicron wave despite ultra-strict mask mandates that were dropped in Australia.
The new book by White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr Deborah Birx reveals a woman with a fanatical fixation on lockdowns and a settled willingness to dupe the President and bring lockdown to America.
Software engineer David Kirkwood peers into the murk of Professor Neil Ferguson's code for his COVID-19 model and finds a sprawling, amateurish mess that was never going to produce anything of value.
The most liked and most commented upon comment below a Financial Times article about Covid vaccines has been removed on the grounds that it "violated our community standards". We have reprinted it in full.
From fake alarmism to flawed models, the two ‘crises’ of Covid and climate change have much in common, writes former UN Assistant Secretary-General Ramesh Thakur.
