Exposing the ‘Vaccine Hesitancy’ Ploy

Written by Steve Jamnik

Do you remember when you first heard the phrase ‘vaccine hesitancy’? Whenever you come across a new phrase or expression that seems unusual or tendentious, you can bet your boots that there is some cosmetically challenged behavioural psychologist behind it.

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Media Copying False Claims About China’s ‘Renewable’ Energy

Written by Ira Stoll

Never just read one newspaper” is one of my media literacy rules. Sometimes even that fails, as it did on Monday, April 13, 2026, when the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both weighed in with suspiciously similar, and sadly unskeptical, stories claiming that the Iran war somehow provided vindication for China’s emphasis on wind and solar energy

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