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Daily Sceptic ‘Fact Checked’ Over Claim That CO2 Increase Lags Behind Global Warming So Cannot Cause It – But That is What the Data Show
Another climate 'fact check', this time claiming our story reporting on the latest study showing that increases in CO2 lag behind global warming so cannot cause it, is "mostly false". Yet that is what the data show.
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New Poll Reveals 39% of Students Think All Speakers Who Cause Someone Offence Should be Banned
A new poll reveals students want less free speech on campus, not more, with 39% believing students' unions should ban all speakers that cause offence and 76% wanting to 'get rid of' controversial statues and memorials.
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Did SARS-CoV-2 Originate in Wuhan in 2019 or Earlier Elsewhere?
Antibodies in Italian blood samples from September 2019 – What is the evidence that SARS-CoV-2 originated earlier than December 2019 in Wuhan, and what are the implications for our understanding of the pandemic?
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News Round-Up
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus – and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.
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Polio May Be Spreading in U.K. for First Time in 40 Years – “National Incident” Declared
Polio may be spreading in the U.K. for the first time in nearly 40 years after mutating from a live vaccine, health chiefs warned today as they declared a "national incident".
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The Experts Are Lying to You
Instinctively, it feels as though 'experts' must be peddling untruths knowingly, out of a misguided sense of paternalistic responsibility. But more troubling is the possibility they have bought into their own fictions.
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Oxford College Admits it Was Wrong to Cancel Christian Group
An Oxford College has apologised for banning a Christian group at the behest of an outrage mob after a joint campaign by the Free Speech Union and Christian Concern. The ban has now been lifted.
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Number 10 to Set Out Plans to Override Powers of European Court of Human Rights Today
According to a report in the Guardian, Downing Street will set out its plans to scrap the Human Rights Act later today, enabling it to override the power of the European Court of Human Rights.
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Covid Vaccines More Likely to Put You in Hospital Than Keep You Out, BMJ Editor’s Analysis of Pfizer and Moderna Trial Data Finds
A new paper by BMJ Editor Dr Peter Doshi has analysed data from the Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccine trials and found that the vaccines are more likely to put you in hospital than keep you out.
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A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus – and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.
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