Matt Ridley

RT @R_H_Ebright: The risk assessment that Fauci commissioned and relied on to justify lifting the pause on federal funding for gain-of-func…

RT @mbeisen: People are so obtuse about this. This isn't a referendum on who was/wasn't right/wrong honest/dishonest principled/selfish - i…

RT @SteveStuWill: “A motorcyclist who traveled 15 miles every day for a year had an astonishing 1 in 860 chance of dying. A person who took…

RT @tomhfh: Wave goodbye to the Genetic Technologies Act. Wave goodbye to our lead in biotech, GM foods, and lab grown meat. Succumb to t…

RT @iainmartin1: UK energy policy has failed: “In the 5 years to the end of last year, the cost of power for industrial businesses jumped 1…

RT @Biorealism: "Genomic evidence, high sequence identities, FCS sequence anomalies, mid-2018 recombination timing, dataset contamination,…

RT @DavidGHFrost: Not really a scoop - it's been obvious for some months Labour are going to do this terrible deal and bring EU law and EU…

This tiresome bloke was audible outside my office window for years. It was indeed annoying. But I never wanted the state to censor or silence him. "I disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it." - E. B. Hall, summarising the view of Voltaire.

The Spectator @spectator

Stop Brexit Man should be free to annoy passers-by in Westminster. Those who believe that abortion is wrong should be allowed to say so – and even think so. ✍️ Patrick West https://t.co/Ka8vWF2Ixx

RT @spectator: 📺‘No wonder we have a growth problem’ – net zero, nationalisation, & the mistakes of British Steel Daniel Hannan and Matt R…

Very good, and disturbing, essay. Once you could do anything that was not specifically prohibited. Now, increasingly, you cannot do anything unless specifically licensed.

spiked @spikedonline

In Britain in 2025, you need a licence to hand out leaflets, you can be arrested for looking at your neighbour and can be fined for standing in a group. We are no longer free citizens, says Josie Appleton https://t.co/opDnfMXejF

"What makes prose sing is the seamless manner in which the technical intertwines with the lyrical. He marvels at the avian perception of ultraviolet hues, colours that humans can’t fathom, surmising that “mammals are prose; birds are poetry”. This flair for language, honed https://t.co/xJDYn8a861

Let's see. That quoted text reveals that they: - did reverse genetics - and genetic manipulation - on Sars-related bat coronaviruses - at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. yet a reviewer of one of our papers asserted no such experiment had ever been done.

Matt Ridley @mattwridley

How can wikipedia get away with such easily debunked lies as this? “There is no evidence that any genetic manipulation or reverse genetics of SARS-related bat coronaviruses was ever carried out at the WIV”. Yet one of their papers (https://t.co/bYIAfFAnlw) states this: https://t.co/VH9qoQXS5F

How can wikipedia get away with such easily debunked lies as this? “There is no evidence that any genetic manipulation or reverse genetics of SARS-related bat coronaviruses was ever carried out at the WIV”. Yet one of their papers (https://t.co/bYIAfFAnlw) states this: https://t.co/VH9qoQXS5F

We have jumped out of the plane hoping to invent the parachute of affordable carbon capture, hydrogen and batteries on the way down...

Andrew Neil @afneil

I agree. Technological breakthroughs on carbon capture, hydrogen, batteries would all make net zero more attainable. But almost none is as yet developable at scale. And to base energy policy on untried, undeveloped, uncosted tech is madness.

RT @LeoKearse: No two-tier policing? Look how Yvette Cooper talks about two different riots - one by migrants in Leeds because children wer…

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Progressive Misogyny @JustMisogyny

This guy is a scientist, apparently. He says this graph shows that sex isn't binary. He's labelled the "Sex" axis with two labels. 🤦

RT @SteveStuWill: A recent paper explores how a parasitic worm evolved to find its way into a praying mantis, take control of it, then forc…