Paul D. Thacker in UnHerd laments the willingness of scientific journalists to accept results from yet-to-be reviewed scientific articles – aka “pre-prints” – when they support pre-existing agendas. This disturbing lack of skepticism was evident in the New York Times’ recent reporting on studies purporting to find “incontrovertible” evidence dismissing the Wuhan lab leak theory.
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.
