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offsite link The Contradiction in the Covid Inquiry?s Use of Modelling Sat Nov 29, 2025 17:00 | Dr Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson
The Covid Inquiry states ministers failed to grasp the shortcomings of models, but then asserts that 23,000 people died because lockdown was late. It's an absurd contradiction, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
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offsite link Labour?s National Curriculum Review Repeats All the Usual Left-Wing Mistakes Sat Nov 29, 2025 15:00 | Kevin Donnelly
Dr Kevin Donnelly, who chaired the 2014 review of the Australian national curriculum, delivers his withering verdict on Labour's review of Britain's: "Repeats the mistakes characteristic of politically correct education."
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offsite link The Zika Scare That Turned Out to Be a False Positive Debacle ? and the ?Congenital Zika Syndrome? B... Sat Nov 29, 2025 13:00 | Dr Randall Bock
The 2015 Zika scare turned out to be a false positive debacle, says Dr Randall Bock. But that hasn't stopped the Lancet to this day pushing the lie of a 'Congenital Zika Syndrome' to replace it.
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There were 150 stabbings in schools last year, while four teachers suffered an amputation. There's a reason why our schools are such violent cesspits, says Joe Baron: because perpetrators are always treated as victims.
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offsite link How Long Until White British Demand a System of Native Protection to Avert Violent Conflict? Sat Nov 29, 2025 09:00 | Michael Rainsborough
As white British look with increasing anxiety to a future as a minority in their own homeland, Professor Michael Rainsborough asks if Malaysia's system of native protection offers a model to avert violent conflict.
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Irish government wastes over 1 million euro on pointless and biased study of fracking

category national | anti-capitalism | news report author Thursday December 03, 2015 07:37author by Frackture Report this post to the editors

Irish government wastes over 1 million euro on biased fracking study
in spite of world oil prices rendering fracking itself as nothing
but a major loss making and pointless exercise.

the irish government still considering fracking, has bankrolled a dodgy EPA study laced with industry conflicts of interest and costing taxpayers over 1 million bucks with no health impact study included.

The rest of the world realises that fracking, a huge loss maker in the US, currently makes absolutely no sense except as a highly destructive short term ponzi scheme unless oil and gas are selling at much higher rates.

"Hey, I know, lets destroy our sustainable long term tourism industry and valuable clean water resources in order to give some short term profits to some cynical psychopathic capitalists. What a great idea. Lets implement a study dominated by captive industry insiders to help sell this toxic waste policy to the gullible citizens"

You have to marvel at the kind of amoral c*nts / idiot muppets that we end up overpaying to look after our best interests and how broken is the system that got them into such a position of responsibility.

Furthermore, it took a FOI request by an anti fracking activist group for it to come out that some of the original researchers from QUB had been replaced by more industry insiders. So the Dail committee itself would not have been in possession of the true facts about the study except for the efforts of activists.

Here's a taste of the discussions at the Dail committee:

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Richard Boyd Barrett questions conflicts of interest of private contractors utilised by EPA


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