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Deadly African Heatwave “Impossible” Without Climate Change, Claims BBC
A deadly heatwave in West Africa was "impossible" without climate change, claims the BBC. But read the fine print and you learn that El Niño was the more likely culprit.
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Did BioNTech’s Experimental Cancer Drugs Promote Cancer? The Plot Thickens
After a recent study found that mRNA promotes cancer, Robert Kogon asks if Covid vaccine maker BioNTech already knew that in 2019 thanks to the hidden results of one of its failed cancer treatment trials.
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Climate Change is Class Warfare
It would be nice to think that pointing to the actual scientific data would put an end to all the climate chaos nonsense. But it won’t, because this ain’t about science: it's class warfare, says Martin Durkin.
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News Round-Up
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the virus and the vaccines, the ‘climate emergency’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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Government-Sponsored Agency the Global Disinformation Index is Censoring Anything Deemed “Harmful” Including Gender Critical Content
Government-sponsored agency the Global Disinformation Index is censoring journalism by causing publications to be starved of advertising if they publish anything deemed "harmful", such as gender critical content.
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They Were Catastrophising the Climate in the 17th Century
All summer long there were "so great rains, that produced greater floods than in the memory of man", wrote John Locke in 1673. The 17th century was full of exactly the same climate catastrophising we hear today.
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Why Are Psychologists Sharing Memes Mocking Their Patients on Social Media?
Dr Kirsty Miller was shocked to discover clinical psychologists sharing memes mocking their patients on social media. The problem, she argues, is the profession has been taken over by Critical Social Justice ideology.
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Can You Game Google Scholar?
Citations are the currency of academia and Google Scholar as the main way of tracking them. However, a new paper shows that it's possible to game Google Scholar and artificially inflate one's citation count.
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The NatCon Siege: Why is the New Elite so Terrified of a Bunch of Middle-Aged Men Spouting Mainstream, Fairly Anodyne Right-of-Centre Policy Positions?
David McGrogan, who attended the NatCon conference in London last year, marvels at the sheer stupidity of the Brussels mayors who tried to shut down this year's conference. Why give NatCon all that free publicity?
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Nick Dixon and Toby Young Talk About the NatCon Siege in Brussels, Iran’s Attack on Israel and the Collapse of the Trans Cult
In the latest Weekly Sceptic, the talking points are the NatCon siege in Brussels, Iran's not-exactly-Pearl-Harbour attack on Israel and the rapid demise of the trans cult.
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