Ministry of Truth

Dr Nicholas Kollerstrom 22 April 2008 UCL has been made aware of views expressed by Dr Nicholas Kollerstrom, an Honorary Research Fellow in UCL Science & Technology Studies. The position of Honorary Research Fellow is a privilege bestowed by departments within UCL on researchers with whom it wishes […]

If there’s one recent piece of first rate investigative blogging that deserves a much higher profile at the moment then it has to be Blairwatch’s ‘outing’ of Nicholas Kollerstrom, a prominent ‘9/11 truther’ (i.e. conspiraloon) as a confirmed Holocaust denier. To give a quick bit of background on […]

Having obtained the actual data on which the Telegraph based its claim, made last September, that Foreigners commit ‘fifth of crime in London‘, courtesy of 5cc – who very cleverly put in an FOIA request for the information given to the press – let’s set about doing the […]

I do wish that bloggers who understand fuck all about science, let alone the peer review process that precedes and follows journal publication, would learn to shut the fuck up and not make assertions that they’re completely unqualified to make: I’d love to know how the BBC justifies […]

Oh dear, it seems the Daily Telegraph needs a refresher course in statistics… More than one crime in five in London is now committed by a foreign national, raising fresh fears over the impact of immigration. Around a third of all sex offences and a half of all […]

It seems that Iain Dale is getting in on the who’s flying what where angle, even if his efforts, like those of his oppo, Shane Greer, are actually pretty risible: Journalists were quick to point out that instead of flying on a British Airways jet decorated with the […]

As this recent missive from Nadine Dorries, the MP for Mid-Narnia, has gone rather unnoticed, despite its unremitting stupidity, then I guess it fall to me to pick it to pieces. New figures will be officially released next week which will claim that there is no need to […]

You’ll have to forgive me, put I couldn’t resist a follow-up to my last post on the Christian Institute’s threat of legal action against Google without giving a demonstration of precisely why the information its pushing on abortion is misleading, factually inaccurate and, in places, entirely dishonest. So, […]

It is with much amusement that I find that the Christian Institute is currently picking a legal fight with, of all companies, Google after it decided that this proposed AdWords entry breached its acceptable content guidelines: UK Abortion law Key views and news on abortion law from The […]

Let’s take another delve into the realms of the hacktitioner, and today’s subject is food additives and hyperactivity in children as reported by Sean Poulter of the Daily Mail – although to be fair to Sean, he’s billed as the newspaper’s  consumer affairs correspondent and not as a […]