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Matt Ridley

@mattwridley

Biologist, columnist | Author of Red Queen, Genome, Rational Optimist, the Evolution of Everything, How Innovation Works, Viral and Birds, Sex and Beauty.

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David Turver (@7kiwi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

They keep insisting that renewables are cheap, but Germany got no bidders in its auction when no subsidies were on offer. Meanwhile, Miliband has offered higher subsidies for his AR7 auction.

Tony Heller (@tonyclimate) 's Twitter Profile Photo

An important reminder from the The Associated Press and the United Nations that global warming destroyed the planet twenty-five years ago apnews.com/article/bd45c3…

An important reminder from the <a href="/AP/">The Associated Press</a> and the United Nations that global warming destroyed the planet twenty-five years ago

apnews.com/article/bd45c3…
Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Wow. The Lancet has gone bonkers It just ran a book review arguing that focusing on sperm/eggs as male/female is bad bcuz it promotes "gametic" bigotry, & so “fuels unhinged panic in some quarters about transgender threats to traditional gender roles” This is a MEDICAL journal

Michael Shermer (@michaelshermer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

When medical journals like The Lancet recommend vaccines, masks, social distancing, during a pandemic, while simultaneously spewing pseudoscientific nonsense like sex is a spectrum, is it any wonder that people with 2 eyes & 2 neurons who know sex is binary, don't trust science?

Ian Solliec (@iansolliec) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Question to zoonosis proponents: if, after 5 years, virologists have not managed to figure out where and how the virus emerged, why should we trust that they can anticipate where and how the next pandemic pathogen will emerge?

Andre Goffinet (@angoffinet) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It is necessary to hammer the truth again and again, lest we get a worse pandemic in the coming years. heritage.org/public-health/…

Andy Mayer (@mayerandrew) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I was revisiting Germany's energy madness yesterday. A 20 year lunacy that means they compete with the UK for the highest energy prices, have damaged Europe's best industrial sector, and with added radiophobia left themselves more reliant on lignite coal burning when their

Simon Maechling (@simonmaechling) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Why does Europe reject biotechnology? It’s not because of a lack of scientific evidence. It’s not because of consumer fear. It’s because of policy - specifically: ⚠️ The Precautionary Principle. Let’s break it down. 👇🧵1/

Guy Gadboit (@gadboit) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Most radiation before 1986 was natural. Therefore the most likely explanation is that any detected in the vicinity of Chernobyl was just caused by a natural release of a few naturally radioactive isotopes. Probably the reactor never exploded. All just a conspiracy theory.

Bjorn Lomborg (@bjornlomborg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Media: Great Barrier Reef devastated! Reality: After hitting unprecedented highs in 2022-24, coral cover in 2025 is 'only' the 4th highest ever recorded Look at the data, not the headlines

Media: Great Barrier Reef devastated!

Reality: After hitting unprecedented highs in 2022-24, coral cover in 2025 is 'only' the 4th highest ever recorded

Look at the data, not the headlines
Kathryn Porter (@kathrynporter26) 's Twitter Profile Photo

An admission that without subsidies, wind isn't economic They call it "revenue stabilisation", but they mean an off-market hedge because nothing stops these developers hedging at fair market value windeurope.org/newsroom/news/…

Moorland Association (@moorlandassoc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🔥 Prescribed Burning Boosts Carbon Storage in Peatlands, New Study Finds A new 3-year study sheds light on how prescribed burning can increase carbon storage in peatlands – a result that challenges common assumptions about fire and carbon loss. 👇 Read summary in replies

🔥 Prescribed Burning Boosts Carbon Storage in Peatlands, New Study Finds

A new 3-year study sheds light on how prescribed burning can increase carbon storage in peatlands – a result that challenges common assumptions about fire and carbon loss.

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Matt Ridley (@mattwridley) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Twenty million people dead and the WHO, governments and others think it may have been caused by an experiment that went wrong. But the key researcher whose technique was shared with his partners in Wuhan is resisting normal freedom of information requests. Trust the science?