News Round-Up
9 June 2023
How We Know Flu Really Did Disappear in 2020 and 2021
8 June 2023
by Will Jones
The worst thing is that young people are not growing out of their snowflake tendencies. Instead, society is being forced to encourage the eccentricities of the young. This doesn't end well.
Criticising China’s Covid lockdowns is a “microaggression”, a university has told professors, as it faces a revolt from more than a dozen of its own academics who accuse it of “policing conformity".
In his new book, Matthew Goodwin shows he understands, in a way few academics do, that 'populism' is political opposition to a rapid decline in living standards.
The new 'progressive' elite is waging war on meritocracy as being supposedly 'white' and 'racist' and is pushing quotas and race-based selection in its place, writes Adrian Wooldridge.
We should view it as concerning that U.K. universities don't seem to understand that inclusivity and excellence are often at odds. If you pursue inclusivity to its extreme then you include everyone irrespective of merit.
The free speech crisis in universities and wider society is very real, and it's not just those on the 'Right' being caught in its censorious snares, senior academics have been told.
The University of North Carolina moved against encroaching woke culture and voted to ban diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) statements and politically preferential hiring.
Western universities have become political monocultures where anyone with Right-of-centre views has learned to go through the progressive motions and keep their forbidden thoughts to themselves, says Prof. James Allan.
Almost 80,000 students are taking legal action and demanding refunds over the costly courses disrupted by Covid that left many without the skills they need for the fields they wish to work in.
Woke is finally catching up with the sciences as mathematicians in British universities are told to "decolonise" the curriculum by downgrading the status of objective rational knowledge – quite literally insane.
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