Science is based on skepticism, the demand that ideas be subjected to rigorous tests. Yet skepticism is notably absent from the climate change debate. Guy Sorkin, writing in City Journal, speaks to climatologist Judith Curry, who contends that “politics, money and fame” have corrupted climate science such that “independence of mind and climatology have become incompatible.”
Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.
