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.
A new freedom of information request has revealed that *another* author of the infamous Lancet letter, which referred to "conspiracy theories" about Covid origins, gave the lab leak credence in a private email.
It's been discovered that the Met Office global surface temperature record from 1975 was boosted over 14% at the end of 2020. At the same time, the period between 1880-1975 was cooled, increasing the apparent warming.
A new pro-lockdown study has been doing the rounds on social media. The author accused one critic of "libel" for saying it was "intellectually dishonest" to draw strong conclusions from dubious methods.
A new book comprehensively examines the scientific evidence on face masks for COVID-19 and finds even the most positive studies only found an effect of 15%, and the properly designed studies found much less than that.
The latest IPCC climate report continues its extreme alarmism, claiming lifestyles and diets must change urgently to avert catastrophe. But actual scientists among the authors are thin on the ground.
There is no evidence adding fluoride to water helps teeth and plenty of evidence it is harmful – but all of this is suppressed by a medical establishment in up to its neck defending claims that don't withstand scrutiny.
Like the predictions of the progress of Covid, we need to ask what the limitations are to climate modelling. Too easily the model output is given the status of truth, and quickly becomes unchallengeable.
