Professor John Ioannidis has written a paper for BMJ Open Research exploring how pro-lockdown scientists used social media to smear sceptical scientists, thereby shutting down debate.
In an original Valentine's Day piece for the Daily Sceptic, philosopher Dr. Sinéad Murphy puzzles over the research finding that women find men in facemasks more attractive. Depressing news, she thinks.
The Sunday Times has done a volte face on lockdown restrictions, now praising Boris for ignoring the warnings about lifting restrictions last year. Has it forgotten its own role in signal boosting those warnings?
According to Lord Sumption, liberal democracies are in peril because their citizens want the state to do more and more to protect them from minor, everyday risks and are happy to sacrifice their liberty in return.
The Prince of Wales has tested positive for Covid in spite of being triple-jabbed, religiously observing mask mandates and having had it before.
We're publishing a review of Dr. Semmelweiss on the Daily Sceptic by the financial journalist Edward Chancellor. It's about a doctor who made a lifesaving medical discovery but was disbelieved by the medical establishment.
The topics under discussion in this week's London Calling podcast are the Freedom Convoy, Jimmy Carr and a review of the podcast published in the progressive online magazine Left Food Forward.
According to the BBC, there was a 77% rise in children needing special mental health treatment in 2021. I wonder how the teaching unions, headteachers, school governors, local authorities and the DfE feel about this?
We’re publishing a “Postcard From Ireland” by longstanding contributor Dr. Sinéad Murphy, an Associate Researcher in Philosophy at Newcastle University....
On this week's London Calling the topics are Partygate, the abandonment of the NHS vaccine mandate and whether the podcast would fall foul of Spotify's new anti-Covid 'misinformation' rules.
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