Nicholas Stix, Uncensored: Confessions of a COVID-19 Truther, and Many Other Interesting-Looking Stories (The Spectator)

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N.S.: I keep hearing about interesting stories from this outlet from friends (one of whom has read some aloud to me), and am considering subscribing to it, which I haven't done anywhere in many years.

To understand COVID we need evidence, skepticism — and vigorous debate

Without a robust debate and constant interrogation of evidence, there's a greater chance of big mistakes being made
By Dr John Lee

Confessions of a COVID-19 truther
It's not easy being skeptical

By Freddy Gray

Didier Raoult — leader of the hydroxychloroquine cult
He could be right. Even if he isn't, people will believe him

By Theodore Dalrymple

After coronavirus, brace yourself for a new world order

Coronavirus has been a crash test for components of the West's soft power arsenal

By John Keiger

If anything is "essential" right now, it's cigarettes

Nothing about this small and unpleasant virus thing is "abundantly clear"
By Rod Liddle

Body positivity's big silence
Fat people of all colors, ages, genders and sexualities need to be extra careful
By Chadwick Moore

A waste of 19 years
The US withdrawal doesn't mean peace in Afghanistan
By Paul Wood

What do elbows have to do with fighting coronavirus?
Digging up reliable etymologies takes a lot of elbow grease
By Dot Wordsworth

Joe Exotic might be the best gay role model I've seen on television
His existence throws a wrench in the narrative that the other America is a hateful land where Christians hunt homos for sport
By Chadwick Moore

Telehealth for addiction during a pandemic
I can now prescribe to patients who don't have bus money to make it to clinic, but who have a phone, or can borrow one
By Dr Jessica Gregg

Salami of the sea
Seacuterie is a delicious but annoying culinary portmanteau
By Jane Stannus

The guns of Alexander
In the event of the gun confiscation fancied by the Democratic party's billionaires and its NPR tote-bag carriers, the hinterlands will not submit
By Bill Kauffman