By Nic Lewis
Key points about the recent Nature paper by Flaxman and other Imperial College modellers
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Did lockdowns really save 3 million COVID-19 deaths, as Flaxman et al. claim?
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JK Rowling fell foul of transgender thought police
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Covid-19 has put many things on hold, but not the transgender thought police. JK Rowling had been in their sights since Christmas when she tweeted her support for Maya Forstater, who had lost her job at a think tank after questioning whether trans women were women (spoiler: we are not — we are the other sex).
When the children’s author accidentally tweeted the contents of her clipboard last Friday the thought police reached new levels of apoplexy. Not for anything Rowling had said: the tweet was swiftly deleted and an explanation given. She was condemned for what she had been reading.
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Jordan Peterson: Why is Marxism so Attractive?
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in development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, history of economic thought, income redistribution, labour economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: political correctness, regressive left
Shredded: Debunking The Endless Myths Pitched by Renewable Energy Propagandists
21 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
The bigger the lie, the more likely the dupe will believe it, which is game played by renewable energy rent seekers with the line that subsidised wind and solar are the answer to our economic recovery.
Just how that might work, is anybody’s guess? If heavy reliance on intermittent wind and solar sent power prices into orbit in Germany, Denmark and South Australia (which suffer the world’s highest power prices), why would following their lead improve our economic prospects?
Alan Moran tackles the topic with his usual analytic flair in a pair of essays that follow below.
An Endlessly Renewable Source of Green Agitprop
Quadrant Online
Alan Moran
9 June 2020
Stoking the fires of renewable energy’s purported advantages is the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), an intergovernmental outfit whose chief purpose is to serve as a spigot for endless propaganda. Its official message is that fossil fuel is an…
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Comedians in Space w/ Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler, David Spade, Tiffany Haddish, Ken Jeong
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“The transman gotcha”
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Single and separate sex services are provided to meet the needs of people of one sex or the other. Often this need is simply for a place to undress, wash, and undertake bodily functions with privacy and dignity, in order to take part in public life such as at the gym, pub, clothing shops, school, university, train station or at work.
In the UK this basic privacy is provided for under the Equality Act – Schedule 3 Paragraph 27 (6)
This section of the law reflects some facts of life that were until quite recently taken for granted – people come in two sexes, people can usually recognise the sex of other adults, and there are circumstances (especially involving undressing and being vulnerable) where it is reasonable to object to having to share a space with a member of the opposite sex.
Single sex spaces are created by institutions setting…
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But @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren supporters favour open borders
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in economics of crime, international economics, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2020 presidential election, regressive left
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