This article from WattsUpWithThat: has been picked up by Lockdown Sceptics. Do read it if you haven’t already. It refers in passing to this article by our old friend Professor Raoult: Y. Roussel, Y.; Raoult, D.; “Influence of conflicts of interest on public positions in the COVID-19 era, the case of Gilead Sciences, New Microbes … Continue reading
Author Archives: Geoff Chambers
OFCOM’s Bonkers Covid-19 Survey
This OFCOM survey about Covid-19 News and Misinformation (tweeted by Michael Yeadon and flagged by BishopHill, to whom many thanks) is the worst opinion survey I’ve seen since you-know-when. A few quick comments: Figure 1: Consumption of misinformation Q8 Have you come across any information/ news about Coronavirus that you think has been false or … Continue reading
Great Barrington and Climate Denial
Google has been playing sillybruvvers with the Great Barrington Declaration – the on-line criticism by world renowned medical experts of current government policies on the Covid crisis. According to this article a Google search initially turned up, not the declaration itself, or an honest account of what it says, but hit pieces attacking it. This seems … Continue reading
Better Built Boris Bites Back
Ben Pile has been tweeting about Boris’s conference speech, delivered on screen with the slogan “Build Back Better” prominently displayed behind him, a slogan which he seems to have borrowed from this organisation. Here is Ben on Twitter: This is extraordinary. Totally divorced from reality. By any comparison with historical moments that precipitated change, such as … Continue reading
Non-Partisan Mann on Heat
The Guardian has an interview with Michael Mann claiming that A second Trump term would be ‘game over’ for the climate, says top scientist. Michael Mann, one of the world’s most eminent climate experts, says Earth’s future ‘is in the hands of American citizens’ The article is not by one of the Guardian’s dozen or … Continue reading
Lewandowsky’s Progress
David Hume awoke Kant from his “dogmatic slumber” when the latter was in his seventies. John Ridgway has the same effect on me. Together we could go far. ClimateDenierRoundup, in their regular spot at Daily Kos rounding up us climate deniers, reveal that: “..in the forthcoming volume of the Annual Review of Public Health […]disinformation expert Stephan Lewandowsky lays … Continue reading
Thunberg on Science
Greta Thunberg is one of those hard-to-pin-down thinkers whose ideas are widespread and influential without being well-defined. Like Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, and Russell Brand. Of course, she has written them down. In a book, published by Penguin Science. With an average of six lines of writing on each page. Like a Noddy book, though without … Continue reading
More Hate for Less Heat
The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) is a non-governmental organisation devoted to “Strengthening communities and democracy by disrupting identity-based hate and dangerous misinformation in digital spaces.”It’s British based (despite the spelling of its name) and, since the setting up of its website blog in May, has been largely concerned with countering mis-information on the coronavirus … Continue reading
Five Go Off The Planet
“Hooray for the Hols!”cried Greta, tossing her plaits joyfully over her shoulders: “No more Latin, no more Greek, / No more freezing my arse off sitting on a cold pavement holding a placard reading Klimastreik!” (It sounded better in Swedish, of course.) There were five of them. Greta, just seventeen, was the youngest. Then came the … Continue reading
Greta Thunbergs Fan Club
How to link the panic in pandemic with the climate crisis? The Guardian (who else?) shows the way: Pandemic shows climate has never been treated as crisis, say scientists. Letter also signed by Greta Thunberg urges EU leaders to act immediately on global heating Greta Thunberg and some of the world’s leading climate scientists have written to EU leaders … Continue reading
