National parks are failing to tackle the biodiversity crisis, with just 6% of national park land in England and Wales managed effectively, according to assessment of how well they are supporting nature recovery, reports Patrick Barkham for @Guardian. theguardian.com/environment/20…

A French woman was found dead in an abandoned church in northern Italy after what appears to have been a ghost-hunting trip, reports Mikhaila Friel for Business Insider. businessinsider.com/ghost-hunter-d…

Even een stukje in de De Telegraaf vandaag over #prebunken en immuniteit tegen misinformatie en hoe we daar in scholen mee moeten beginnen!

telegraaf.nl/watuzegt/18659…

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“No Tax For Genocide”: is the refusal to pay taxes a reasonable form of protest? | Mark Horne

The 'No Tax For Genocide' campaign urges protesters to withhold tax payments, but followers of their advice should think hard about the group's goals

skeptic.org.uk/2024/04/no-tax…

Former footballer Matt Le Tissier has bizarrely hinted that the government planned the 2020 lockdown to stop people going outside and enjoying the sunshine, as he bemoaned the current 'horrific' weather across the UK, reports Sam Brookes for Daily Mail Online. dailymail.co.uk/sport/football…

Conspiracy theorist 'Disclose Screen The Grimreefar' believes he's come across the 'Holy Grail' of UFO evidence on a space station livestream after allegedly spotting a giant 'boomerang-shaped' aircraft, reports Kirsty-Louise Card for @DailyStar. dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-ne…

New study with mostly liberal sample finds that people do change their mind about conspiracy beliefs, but not often, reports Emily Reynolds for British Psychological Society. bps.org.uk/research-diges…

Arts education is essential, yet on both sides of the Atlantic, the humanities and critical thinking are under attack. With massive redundancies announced at this London institution, is it the canary in the coalmine? Asks @[email protected] for @Guardian. theguardian.com/education/2024…

The number of “honour-based” abuse offences recorded by English police forces has increased by more than 60% in two years, figures suggest, with concerns voiced that increased polarisation is partly to blame, reports Haroon Siddique for @Guardian. theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

X's AI chatbot, Grok, generates headlines and content based on trending. But what happens if what's trending is fake news? That's what happened when verified users on X started sharing a fake claim Iran attacked Israel, reports Catalina Marchant de Abreu for FRANCE 24. france24.com/en/tv-shows/tr…

Alien and UFO sightings on Earth could be explained by hidden dimensions which researchers at the CERN particle accelerator are seeking, Avi Loeb has warned, reports Rob Waugh for Daily Mail Online. dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar…

A video has been posted on X / Twitter of what the user claims is a UFO appearance in Texas during the solar eclipse on April 8, reports Jake Brigstock for indy100. indy100.com/viral/ufo-sola…

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured a mysterious-looking sliver of an object orbiting the Moon last month. The object zipped by NASA’s LRO with a relative speed of 11,000 km/h, reports Chris Young for Interesting Engineering. interestingengineering.com/innovation/ufo…

Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres, writes Elise Cutts for Quanta Magazine. quantamagazine.org/doubts-grow-ab…

Anti-vaxxers not living in fear so much that they got themselves custom bracelets to show how much they aren't living in fear.

#antivax #antivax xers #unvaxxed #unvaccinated #RatLickers 🐀

So today Brand interviewed Ladapo on the “censoring” of excess deaths

It leads to a quite a few lies and misinformation

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Tom Hanks posted lots of photos of discarded clothes he found while walking around. QAnon has turned this into Hanks showing off trophies of the victims he drained for Adrenochrome.

Today is World Homeopathy Day.

In its honor, let’s remember that time The Amazing James Randi overdosed on homeopathy and lived to tell about it.

Though Liu Cixin’s revered trilogy has been westernised for TV, it dares to trace the scars of the Cultural Revolution, says @Guardian foreign leader writer tania branigan. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…