“They have said the quiet part out loud.”
Category: Disinformation
Summaries
Highly cited early COVID research is of a generally low quality
“High citation of low-quality research increases the chance that poor evidence is being used to inform policies, further eroding public confidence in science.”
Summaries
MacCulloch – Former NZ leaders should be held accountable for COVID stats shown to be wrong
“We cut ourselves off from the world and became a place where nearly every aspect of our lives was brought under government control.”
NZ News Essentials
Why have a COVID enquiry? Why not just declare success with a partisan study?
Government friendly local experts construct a study that ignores the other side to the argument.
Disinformation
Leading scientific journal fooled by fake AI-generated paper featuring giant rat penis
How’d this get by ‘peer review’?
Disinformation
Crampton warns against adopting the proposed Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill
“Canada’s version of the legislation worked so well that the Canadian government had to bail out the country’s newspapers.”
Disinformation
Wealthy foundations’ influence on climate journalism exposed
DEI meets environmental journalism.
Disinformation
Texas sues US Government over unlawful censorship of American press
The plaintiffs want to halt the ultra vires actions of the US government.
NZ News Essentials
Is the Auckland safer speeds campaign based on a flawed study?
Is Auckland Transport recklessly driving the crash narrative?