Tag Archives: misinformation

Ask someone for help to resolve an issue and more often than not they will tell you that YouTube is your friend. It can sort out all sorts of technical things and show you how to fix or assemble gadgets and devices. Google it, they say. Today’s challenges are solved …

We trust Google more than doctors. And it is costing us. We are living in the most medically advanced time in human history. Unfortunately, trust in medicine has never felt more fragile. It has worsened since Covid. We can map the human genome. We can replace failing organs. We can …

For whatever reason, the Express posted my column last week (The Art of Forgetting) on its Facebook page with an introductory heading comprising these 30 words of the 900 I’d written. “I come from a Muslim family, and when I entered puberty I rejected Islam for telling me that menstruation …

Now cometh the day of the anti-vaxxer. And I say unto you, in this country, that is not a thing. Stop making it a thing. It is not our thing.  Let there be limited confusion about where this has come from. It has come from far-off lands where people have …