Because they will take them
Not long ago, a committee for determining who receives a prestigious annual American Geophysical Union award was reconstructed to be more diverse (especially, more representative of those who who had...
View ArticleHalleluyah! Antiviral drugs are coming (and remember, Don’t mention Ivermectin!)
Now the UK has approved an anti-viral drug, early treatment is on the official agenda (on this side of the pond at least). Also on this side of the pond is a Dr John Campbell, whose amiable video...
View ArticleVaccines: some seek confidence, others a confidence trick
A dailysceptic article on the phenomenon of negative vaccine efficacy points out how routinely analysts still assume an efficacy minimum of zero, despite some negative vaccine efficacy examples having...
View ArticleJesus College, Cambridge, pays reparations for abolishing slavery
the college staged a fulsome ceremony, in which the statuette was handed to a descendent of the Obas of Benin, the slavers from whom it was confiscated. The British who freed the Oba’s slaves were...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of long ago versus yesterday
“The idea that you are successful because you are hardworking is pernicious and wrong because it means everyone who is unsuccessful is stupid and lazy.” Minouche Shafik (LSE director, quoted in The...
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Woke hatred of free speech transitions its proteges into what it forbids you...
The problem is: I was wrong. Or, to be a bit more accurate, I got things partly right. But then, for the rest, I basically just made it up. In my defence, I wasn’t alone. Everyone was (and is) making...
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They used to feel the need of adjectives
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has a dire warning for us. There was a time when it was “bourgeois freedom” or “freedom to starve” or something. There was a time when they felt the need of some...
View ArticleBehind Putin and Trudeau stands Xi
At the start of WWII, Britain and France imposed a blockade on Germany. They believed the blockade had contributed greatly to victory in WWI – and they liked the thought of doing it again far better...
View Article“If he were killing a mouse, he would know how to make it seem like a dragon.”
I offer two bits of the anglosphere’s past to help us understand two bits of the Russian present. Firstly, “I should like to put it on record that I have never been able to dislike Hitler. … The fact...
View ArticleGovernment minister guilty of ‘bullying’: expecting senior civil servants to...
Michael Gove stands accused of bullying his civil servants. According to The Sun, he “was said to have been visibly angry with a string of officials” over the abject state of the visa scheme for...
View ArticleWoke rage reveals a fact about the transition pipeline from schools to social...
Some Texan childcare social workers are so “distraught” that a new law regulates their handling of trans kids that they say they will resign! (We’ll see if woke bureaucrats’ promises to resign are...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the night that identifies as a day
Kathleen Stock’s latest article in Unherd is titled “The emptiness of being queer” and subtitled “Sexual libertarians and rainbow bureaucrats created the perfect racket”. She should have subtitled it...
View Article“Who said the ‘N’ word?”
Natalie asked, “Can you guess what Lufthansa is talking about here?” For a bonus point, can you guess what word, beginning with ‘N’, the German policeman is prohibiting here? … Jewish passengers were...
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Sonnets are racist says SalfordU
Salford University has banned sonnets and suchlike “products of white western culture” from its creative writing course to “decolonise the curriculum”. I say ‘banned’ but they say they merely...
View Article“Ve’re askink ze qvestions!”
Last Wednesday, Jodi Shaw received a Hero of Intellectual Freedom Award – and got to rap on-stage in NYC, four years after Smith College told her she couldn’t because rapping while white was racist....
View ArticleSamizdata word for today: paraprofessional
their paramilitary character must be understood in connection with other professional party organisations, such as those for teachers, lawyers, physicians, students, university professors, technicians...
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So who was Britain’s Dr Birx?
Although it is already being offered at 50% off, I feel so reluctant to put money in the pocket of Dr Birx that I will delay reading her new book until I see a remaindered copy on a charity bookstall....
View ArticleA Modest Proposal for containing Monkeypox
The WHO has proclaimed Monkeypox a global health emergency. A major study in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that Monkeypox is being driven overwhelmingly by sex between men. Yesterday the...
View ArticleDo you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?
Tegnell was aided by another worthy candidate to share the Nobel, Johan Giesecke, who had formerly held Tegnell’s job and served during the pandemic as an advisor to the Swedish public health agency....
View ArticleWhat was he expecting?
Last week, James Sweet, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and President of the American Historical Association, published a very few, very cautious criticisms of the 1619...
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