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Steven Tucker Steven Tucker is a UK-based writer with over 10 books to his name. His next, Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science, comparing the woke pseudoscience of today to the totalitarian pseudoscience of the past, will be published in summer 2023. mercatornet.com Tough Crowd: How I
Simon Black Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the Founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur, and a free man. His daily e-letter, Sovereign Letters, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more freedom, more opportunity, and more
Craig Rucker Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president. Widely heralded as a leader in the free market environmental, think-tank community in Washington, DC, Rucker is a frequent guest on radio talk shows, written extensively in numerous publications, and has appeared in such media
Dave Patterson libertynation.com It appears Kim Jong Un has a new toy. On Nov 21, North Korea crowed that it had put its first spy satellite in orbit. Two previous launches ended in failure, but the third was the charm – after a successful earth-to-orbit blastoff for its Chollima-1 rocket.
Harry Palmer I received the above update in a Consumer email. It is also on their website. This was my response to them: Though I’ve been a member of Consumer for many years and will always remain grateful for the help the organisation has given me in several matters,
Julian Maxwell Hayter University of Richmond theconversation.com Few people have been more associated with rolling back modern-day civil rights laws than Edward Blum, the former stockbroker who has successfully challenged many affirmative action and voting rights laws. Blum has no formal legal training. He, in fact, refers to himself
Ron Paul ronpaulinstitute.org Some libertarians dismiss concerns over social media companies’ suppression of news and opinions that contradict select agendas by pointing out that these platforms are private companies, not part of the government. There are two problems with this argument. First, there is nothing unlibertarian about criticizing private
familyfirst.org.nz Medical experts in Australia are calling for a halt and reexamination of ‘unproven’ gender-affirming treatments which have been heavily influenced by trans activist groups whose lobbying was aggressive and intimidatory. Gender-affirming treatments include a range of controversial medical interventions “designed to affirm an individual’s gender identity”
J.R. Bruning J.R. Bruning is a consultant sociologist (B.Bus.Agribusiness; MA Sociology) based in New Zealand. Her work explores governance cultures, policy and the production of scientific and technical knowledge. Her Master’s thesis explored the ways science policy creates barriers to funding, stymying scientists’ efforts to
Peter Jacobsen Peter Jacobsen is a Writing Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org Javier Milei, the recently elected president of Argentina, is somewhat famous for his eccentric relationship with his dogs. There are a lot of quirks about Milei’s dogs, including the fact that they are
El Gato Malo El gato malo is a pseudonym for an account that has been posting on pandemic policies from the outset. AKA a notorious internet feline with strong views on data and liberty. brownstone.org Well, that sure does maybe explain why so much of this felt like a
Merja Myllylahti Auckland University of Technology theconversation.com According to a recent survey by the News Media Association, 90% of editors in the United Kingdom “believe that Google and Meta pose an existential threat to journalism”. Why the pessimism? Because being in the news business but relying on social media
Lyn F A long-standing Australian client, a man in his mid-70s and of British origin, sent me a Crikey article published in Australia this week. As I read it, I became increasingly angry. I checked out the author and then understood her aim with this piece of propaganda. Not wanting
Peter Thompson Victoria University of Wellington theconversation.com Winston Peters had only just been sworn in as deputy prime minister when his long-standing antipathy to the news media emerged in the form of a serious accusation. Referring to the Public Interest Journalism Fund (PIJF) set up under the previous Labour
Toby Walsh UNSW Sydney theconversation.com OpenAI’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT was unleashed onto an unsuspecting public exactly one year ago. It quickly became the fastest-growing app ever, in the hands of 100 million users by the end of the second month. Today, it’s available to more
