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Wikipedia co-founder: I no longer trust the website I created
Chances are, if you’ve ever been on the internet, you’ve visited Wikipedia. It is the world’s fifth largest website, pulling in an estimated 6.1 bill…
4 years, 8 months ago
Rupert Sheldrake: Science does not tolerate dissent
The concept of scientism, the quasi-religious belief in science and scientists, has risen in prominence over the past year. It has been a theme in ma…
4 years, 8 months ago
Dr Mike Tildesley: what our Covid forecasts got wrong
SPI-M (the “Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling) is the government committee in charge of producing forecasts for the future direction o…
4 years, 9 months ago
Kemi Badenoch: Britain is the best place in the world to be black
Is Britain a racist country? This is a question that sharply divides most Brits, but for one Government minister, the answer is an emphatic ‘no’. In …
4 years, 9 months ago
UnHerd event: has lockdown changed us forever?
It is difficult to capture just how transformative an impact lockdown has had on us as individuals and as a society. For 15 months, we have been unab…
4 years, 9 months ago
Jess de Wahls: Cancelled (and un-cancelled) by the Royal Academy
It all started with an Instagram post. Over the weekend, the Royal Academy thanked those “for bringing an item in the RA shop by an artist [Jess de W…
4 years, 9 months ago
Richard Dawkins: 'Scientism' is a dirty word
We were really delighted that Richard Dawkins agreed to come on LockdownTV to discuss “Scientism” and his new anthology of writing about science lite…
4 years, 9 months ago
SAGE Prof Susan Michie: should we wear masks forever?
Professor Susan Michie, a behavioural psychologist who sits on the all-important Sage committee, made headlines last week by appearing to suggest tha…
4 years, 9 months ago
Chris Bickerton: Welcome to the Technopopulist future
The pandemic has thrown traditional ideas about politics upside down. In a sense, it has been the ultimate triumph of the technocrats, with phrases l…
4 years, 9 months ago
Maya Forstater: Today's judgment on trans is a landmark
When Maya Forstater first started expressing “gender critical” views in late 2018 (ie that biological sex is real and important), she was a researche…
4 years, 9 months ago