An astonishing thing is happening at sea, but the government, backed by an entire “scientific” discipline, seems determined to stifle it.
Category: science
First, Do No Harm
The appalling mistreatment of ME/CFS patients continues, based on the myth that it’s all in the mind.
Honourable Theft
How one young woman broke down the gates of knowledge
A Blizzard of Nonsense
Whatever happened to the crazy weather the Daily Express keeps predicting?
A Shock to the System
A new form of marine mass destruction is outrageously being justified by the EU and its member states in the name of “scientific research”.
The Elixir of Life – In a Poisoned Chalice?
Is life extension science an astonishing promise or an astonishing threat? Or both?
Brilliance and Bunkum
The terrible howlers in James Lovelock’s new book show that genius is no defence against being wrong.
Age of Unreason
The governments of Britain, Canada and Australia are trying to stamp out scientific dissent.
La Nouvelle Trahison des Clercs
When scholars sell out, the consequences are grave.
The Counter-Enlightenment
How government science advisers misrepresent science.
The Lairds of Learning
How did academic publishers acquire these feudal powers?
Evolving Madness
Why does a crazy set of beliefs in one field seem to migrate into unrelated subjects?
Debate with Steve Easterbrook
We explore the mutual incomprehension across the climate emails divide
Walled In
Science and humanities students view each other with incomprehension: blame our dumb, narrow schooling.
The Unpersuadables
In fighting for science, we subscribe to a comforting illusion: that people can be swayed by the facts.
Captive Knowledge
The funding for academic research has been taken over by business
A Beardful of Bunkum
David Bellamy’s at it again, with even dafter claims about climate change.
Libertarians are the True Social Parasites
Matt Ridley raged against the government – until he needed £16 billion
The Real Climate Censorship
It’s happening, it’s systematic, and it is precisely the opposite story to the one the papers are telling.
Channel 4’s Problem with Science
It doesn’t give a damn about whether the facts stack up – as long as it creates a controversy.