Monthly Archives: September 2020

Now Charles Darwin cancelled by BLM

Posted on 06/09/2020 by Jon Garvey

My thanks to Extinction Rebellion, whose blockading of newspaper offices because they are insufficiently fanatical about climate alarmism has enabled me to read an entire piece in the Telegraph online. The Telegraph has made it free until tomorrow morning in the interests of free speech.

Posted in History, Politics and sociology, Science | 2 Comments

More on lived experience

Posted on 04/09/2020 by Jon Garvey

Last month I did a piece comparing the insistence of critical race theory, and intersectionality in general, on accepting “lived experience” as definitive, with the liquidation of the kulaks in Soviet Russia. In both cases, I argued, lived experience could easily be conditioned by careful propaganda.

Posted in Medicine, Politics and sociology | 2 Comments

Information on misinformation (or vice-versa)

Posted on 02/09/2020 by Jon Garvey

How do you decide which sources from two fairly well-demarcated sides in a disputed situation are more likely to be truthful? You go on the basis of what can be tested, don’t you?

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