The salutary tale of a failed research grant proposal

Or the ingrained commercial snobbery and sabotaging prejudice of structurally rigged UK academic funding

Dec 17, 2025 • Norman Fenton

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Even Ralph Baric would agree with us!

Claim of Function, rather than the Gain of Function smokescreen, properly frames the lab-leak story

Dec 5, 2025 • Martin Neil and Jonathan Engler

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This paper will SHOCK the world: Unveiling hidden biases that inflated COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness and safety

How misclassification of early post-vaccination deaths distorts mortality rates and public health assessments

Published on Dr. Panagis Polykretis Substack • Dec 2, 2025

The salutary tale of a depraved academic

Or how a microcosm presciently exposed the systemic failings of British universities and academia

Dec 1, 2025 • Norman Fenton

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November 2025

Academic bias and corruption: the case of the Royal Statistical Society

Ostracised for daring to question the integrity of Barak Obama

Nov 26, 2025 • Norman Fenton

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Vascular Symptoms Caused by COVID-19 are Utterly Unique and Unusual... Just Like Every Other Respiratory Pathogen Ever

Like many others, the authors participate in a WhatsApp Group with other writers and commentators on the covid event.

Nov 24, 2025 • Martin Neil and Jonathan Engler

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COVID-19: Debating Divergent Views on Virus Novelty & Mortality

A conversation between Claire Craig, Martin Neil and Jonathan Engler

Nov 7, 2025 • Martin Neil, Jonathan Engler, and Clare Craig

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October 2025

The case of the Kandinsky painting and Bayes' theorem

In 2018 I posted the article below on my old blog about how I was asked by the lawyers in the case to provide a Bayesian analysis to determine the…

Oct 28, 2025 • Norman Fenton

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Dr. Carol Swain: Standing for Truth Against the Academic Establishment

On 15 October 2025, I had the privilege of interviewing Dr.

Oct 19, 2025 • Norman Fenton

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Are Universities Prioritising Politically Motived Woke Ideology Over Inquiry?

The debates are fierce, the stakes are imaginary, and the grants are very real

Oct 10, 2025 • Norman Fenton

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Making sense of Covid data and risk - 56 months on

Last week I spoke with Dr.

Oct 7, 2025 • Norman Fenton

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September 2025

Challenging Narratives on COVID, Climate Change, and Academic Freedom

An interview with David Carter of the Truth Contract

Sep 30, 2025 • Norman Fenton

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