American medicine has abandoned meritocracy. Black students are seven times more likely to be admitted to medical school than similarly qualified white students, and nine times more likely than Asian students.
Ukrainian-Canadian academic Ivan Katchanovski argues that the Maidan massacre was a false flag operation carried out by the Ukrainian far-right. Here he responds to a recent article criticising his work.
A recent survey found that 82% of Harvard faculty identify as liberal, and only 1.5% identify as conservative. The survey is consistent with similar surveys from previous years and vast amounts of other data.
It has been claimed that NATO's operation in Afghanistan was "defensive". However, it is unclear how the 2007 bombing of Helmand province, which killed at least 45 Afghan civilians, was in any way "defensive".
A recent Guardian article claims the phrase "white working class" is a "fiction". I wonder what the white working class girls who were abused by grooming gangs, and ignored by the authorities, would make of this claim?
NATO’s official Twitter account posted a bizarre video purporting to debunk "myths" about the organisation. But it's as bad as Russian propaganda. In the West, we’re not meant to be propagandised by our governments.
The Great Awokening is not unique to the English-speaking world. Researcher David Rozado finds that mentions of terms like 'sexist' and 'transphobic' have increased dramatically in Spain's newspaper of record.
A study has found that social scientists are no better than laymen at forecasting social change in the US. This highlights a problem with "expertise": in many domains, it doesn't line up with credentials.
Has the lab leak been proven false? That's the impression you'd get from a BBC article yesterday. But the new studies mentioned in that article prove no such thing. One even admits there is "insufficient evidence".
Ukraine's Government has compiled a list of individuals who “promote narratives consonant with Russian propaganda”. But one name is notable by its absence: Pope Francis, who has twice suggested NATO "provoked" the war.
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