For the past two years, the Western media has taken that pernicious little term, “Zero Covid”, at face value. While the rest of the world saw rocketing caseloads and death rates, during a key 18-month period China reported two (yes, …
The Emergence of Neo-Fascism in Public Health
by David Bell
Fascism is the art of hiding the truth behind a facade of wholesome virtue. It is, presumably, as old as humanity. Mussolini just gave it a name – hiding his authoritarian ideas behind the drainage of swamps,…Our universities need a revolution
What is the point of university? It used to be, when Harvard was founded in 1636, “to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity”. But in recent years the university has taken on an altogether narrower character. Learning is no …
Suppressing Scientific Discourse on Vaccines? Self-perceptions of Researchers and Practitioners
by Josh Guetzkow, republished with permission from his Substack, Jackanapes Junction In late 2019, I joined two other Israeli criminologists and a health risk communications expert in a research project to study the suppression of scientific dissent around the topic…
Suppressing Scientific Discourse on Vaccines? Self-perceptions of Researchers and Practitioners
by Josh Guetzkow, republished with permission from his Substack, Jackanapes Junction In late 2019, I joined two other Israeli criminologists and a health risk communications expert in a research project to study the suppression of scientific dissent around the topic…
Musk’s Acquisition of Twitter Is a Step in the Right Direction for Freedom of Speech
by David Thunder, The Freedom Blog. Re-published with permission.
The acquisition of Twitter by entrepreneur and business magnate Elon Musk for the handsome sum of $44 billion will almost certainly have far-reaching consequences for the way the global public sphere…TNE Podcast: Abir Ballan interviewed by Jeffrey Peel
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Jihadi John created online censorship
It’s unclear how far Elon Musk’s pledge to restore free speech to Twitter will go; it wasn’t long ago that you could easily stumble upon entire ecosystems of online jihadis and their fanboys on the site. As one surrealist Twitter …
You can’t police offence
In virtue of my heretically archaic views about biology and the importance of women’s rights, I’m the target of quite a lot of rude online behaviour. The other day, for instance, I learnt I was lucky I hadn’t been hanged …
Sunday Wire: ‘Truth in a Time of Great Deceit’ with guest Nick Hudson and more
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How to Get Around the Digital Iron Curtain – #SolutionsWatch
As the battle lines are drawn in the new cold war, a digital iron curtain is descending across the internet. Governments are increasingly cracking down on the net and attempting to limit what websites you can access. Today James walks …
The fictional world of trans activism
When people say things like “transwomen are women”, “transmen are men”, and “nonbinary people are neither women nor men”, what do they mean? In my book Material Girls, I suggested that many of them are immersed in a fiction.
Getting …
The myth of online misinformation
Just before the Russian invasion of Ukraine consumed the media, New York Times columnist Jay Caspian Kang and Substacker Matthew Yglesias published near-simultaneous critiques of the notions of “disinformation” and “misinformation”. This convergence among prominent liberals was significant. These and …
Thread by Nick Hudson @NickHudsonCT March 14, 2022
The story of PANDA’s first run-in with YouTube censorship is an interesting one.
In late 2020, our weekly Open Science meeting considered the spatial distribution of earth cases and deaths in the UK counties. We concluded that the data was …
Episode 414 – The Future of Censorship
Welcome to The . . . The . . . Corbert Report? Hosted by, uhhhh . . . James? CorBETT? I’m filling in for today. I’d send you to his website but I forget what that is. Oh, I know! …