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Project Director: @GoodThinkingSoc Editor: @TheSkepticMag President: @merseyskeptics Writer: @BadPRblog Podcasts: Be Reasonable, Skeptics with a K. He/Him.
Jun 2, 2023 67 tweets 13 min read
70 expert speakers, and almost twice as many audience members...

Neil Oliver opens by introducing a video message from a special supporter of the conference...

...pause...

...pause...

...person comes onto the stage to whisper in his ear...

...so, the video isn't working... Tess Lawie speaks for 4 minutes... and then the video starts! It's Del Bigtree, talking over her for a moment, and then they kill the video.
May 25, 2023 14 tweets 4 min read
Disgraced former Tory MP Andrew Bridgen (of asking a transphobic moral panic question at PMQs literally yesterday fame) appeared on the latest Psych Club video by QAnon promoter and Gematria practitioner Tom Numbers (alongside returning guest, Matt Le Tissier) 👇🧵 1/13 Image YouTube quickly banned the video (because Covid antivaxxers), but this only fed into the narrative, because now they get to post it to Rumble with the preface "Banned YouTube episode".
Nov 11, 2021 5 tweets 1 min read
Wonder how many people who once saw themselves as skeptics will follow Peter here down the “wokeism is evil” slide all the way to *squints* “it is a myth that climate change is making natural disasters deadlier” and “it is a myth that homelessness is caused by poverty”. I guess this is the kind of heterodox thinking students can expect to be taught at that new university of not-a-university.

It isn’t that Peter’s ideas are too radical to be allowed, it’s that he’s all-in on defending status quo to the point that he’s now denying climate change