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.

A Spite That Knows No Bounds
Gratingly awful global scold Greta Thunberg’s latest stunt is to turn on her own motherland. Sweden has been very good to her, but the former social-democratic paradise’s mugging by the realities of uncontrolled immigration do not sit well with the keffiyeh-clad rabblerouser. “For years, Sweden took more asylum seekers per capita than any other country in Europe,” writes Fredrik Karrholm in The Spectator. “Now asylum numbers have fallen to their lowest level since 1985.”


