News Round-Up

• “Chinese officials admit there is ‘no evidence’ Covid originated in raccoon dogs — despite report from Fauci-linked scientists” – The former head of the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said there was no conclusive evidence to support a theory that COVID-19 originated in raccoon dogs, the Mail reports. He also said he had not seen “anything unusual until the end of December [2019]” when respiratory cases started to fill hospital wards in Wuhan.
• “Finley Boden’s parents convicted of killing baby on Christmas Day used lockdown as cover” – A mother and father who spent their days smoking cannabis killed their baby on Christmas Day after using lockdown as cover for their brutal treatment of him, reports the Telegraph.
• “Long Covid sense loss ‘can be cured by sniffing an orange’” – Smelling the citrus fruit twice a day can help alleviate key symptoms of the illness, according to a study reported in the Telegraph.
• “U.K. Government Evidence for Mask Mandates – Main Points” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson wonder whether the UKHSA researchers behind the mask report read beyond the abstracts.
• “FDA Chief Blames ‘Misinformation’ for Declining Life Expectancy” – FDA Commissioner Robert Califf has suggested that excess mortality, a.k.a. reduced life expectancy, is caused by “misinformation”, and Igor Chudov is not impressed.
• “Teenager took his own life after ‘losing hope over climate change’” – A 19 year-old Greenpeace activist took his own life after “losing hope” over the future of the environment, his family have said, according to the Telegraph.
• “Our £25,000 heat pumps left us out of pocket – and operating a NASA spaceship would be easier: Brits who signed up for boiler upgrade scheme are left facing £5,000 energy bills, wake up to cold homes and have to use blankets to keep warm” – Britons who have installed heat pumps in their homes tell of their anger at being left with “soul destroying” electricity bills and enormous installation costs. In the Mail .
• “The pure folly of Germany’s nuclear phase-out” – This weekend, Germany will shut down the second, sixth and eighth most productive nuclear reactors in world history, sacrificing billions of euros of clean energy investment and decades of expertise on the altar of crude ideology, writes Lincoln Hill for CapX.
• “Atomausstieg: In the middle of the European energy crisis and rising electrical demand from stupid energy transition policies, Germany takes its last three nuclear power plants offline forever” – “Someday, historians will recognise the deep stupidity of our historical moment,” writes Eugyppius, “but that day appears to be very far off.”
• “No more private jets and yachts then, Cara? IT-girl model launches new eco-warrior project ‘to teach people how to help the planet’… (after at least 12 work trips and holidays in a year)” – British model Cara Delevingne has launched a new eco-warrior project “to teach people how to help the planet” – only to immediately draw attention to her own jet-setting lifestyle, reports the Mail. 
• “Canada’s Government directly leaned on social media platforms to censor news and tweets” – Reclaim the Net reports on direct censorship requests.
• “FSU Criminology Professor Abruptly Leaves After Accusations of Cooking Race Data” – Professor Eric Stewart, who is accused of faking data that make racism against black and Hispanic Americans seem more common than it is, has suddenly exited Florida State University, the Florida Standard reports.
• “The BBC’s liberal bubble has finally burst” – In one stroke, no-nonsense Elon Musk exposed the Left-wing prejudices at the heart of Auntie’s reporting, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “How the trans lobby hijacked the Census” – A badly worded question on sex and gender identity has produced some utterly absurd statistics, writes Lauren Smith for Spiked.
• “How the trans census fooled Britain” – Kathleen Stock writes for UnHerd on the census trans question debacle.
• “The parallel economy: the Right-wing movement creating a safe haven for deplatformed conservative influencers” – Right-wing activists are creating a ‘parallel economy’ to compete with mainstream tech and financial systems, write Jing Zeng and Daniela Mahl in the Conversation.
• “Why Daniel Radcliffe is wrong about children changing gender” – Debbie Hayton in the Spectator draws on his own experience of gender dysphoria to counter Daniel Radcliffe’s misguided activism.
• “The depopulation bomb” – Worldwide demographic decline will soon pose a serious challenge for humanity, says Joel Kotkin in Spiked.
• “Elon Musk slams transgender therapy for minors and says parents or doctors who ‘sterilise a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life’” – The billionaire businessman made the comment in response to discussion about new rules approved by medical boards in Florida banning gender-affirming care for kids under 18, the Mail reports.
• “Anheuser-Busch CEO breaks silence after Bud Light’s partnership with trans TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney drew backlash: ‘We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people’” – The U.S. CEO of Bud Light parent company Anheuser-Busch has broken his silence to address polarisation over the company’s disastrous marketing partnership with Dylan Mulvaney, the Mail reports.
• “‘Woke Alerts’ warn of products with Left-wing agenda after Bud Light furore” – American shoppers are being offered ‘woke alert’ text warnings about products pushing a perceived Left-wing agenda, as part of a conservative backlash to Bud Light’s partnership with a trans influencer, the Telegraph reports. 

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