When the High Court overturned Peter Ridd's lower-court victory against James Cook University it was a decision to chill the hearts and still the tongues of every scientist in every scientific institution in Australia. Now that a report detailing the Reef's ruddy good health has vindicated the banished professor and damned his critics, where does he go to get an apology?

This much of the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) crusade […]

Youth conveys certain privileges, not least the right to be extraordinarily silly and have no one think ill of you. Alas, in our politically correct land, where asininity draws an ardent following, even a nine-year-old's nonsense about the National Anthem attracts advocates old enough to know better

“The Khmer Rouge doesn’t eat rice,” said Tuon Chay, “they […]

The columnist and Climate Authority panelist have been locked in a long-running dispute about each other's inability to grasp some relatively simple numbers concerning CO2 reductions. If errors were fact an arrogance an asset, Quiggin would have won at a canter

The film is not without its faults, but to dwell upon them while overlooking its finer points does an injustice to Victor Hugo's sweeping theme of the clash between committments sincerely held

In Defence of Freedom of Speech: From Ancient Greece to […]

John Howard, we were told, was the sworn enemy of free speech. Chris Berg's fine new book fingers the real foes of unfettered debate
 

In the Weekend Australian, Michael Steketee emptied a load he called Scientists who trade in doubt, from a bucket labelled: Get Carter.