Matt Ridley



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Area of interest: Environment: evolution, genetics, environment and society

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 * The West was behind this Chinese atrocity - A green idea based on a false premise, the one-child policy was the result of mathematical modelling - 13th January 2014
 * Roll up: cherry-pick your research results here - It’s not only Tamiflu where inconvenient data goes unpublished. Try climate science and psychology too - 6th January 2014
 * Britain’s best days may still lie ahead - The Anglosphere nations’ bottom-up experiment with liberty under the law can still dominate the future - 30th December 2013
 * Woolwich shows how civilised we’ve become - Behind the horrors of the Rigby murder and recent paedophile scandals lies a more optimistic picture - 23rd December 2013
 * Jupiter to Earth — who’s in charge here? - If we do find alien life forms, watch the arguments begin about who has the authority to deal with them - 16th December 2013
 * Britain’s IQ test is to raise the lower levels - About half our intelligence is inherited, but the other half comes from education and experience - 9th December 2013
 * Green energy could kill Britain’s economy - George Osborne needs to act fast if we are to benefit from falling gas prices in the rest of the world - 2nd December 2013
 * Let immigrants in. Then send them home - It isn’t racist to say that an influx of foreigners causes problems – but let’s use them to export our values - 25th November 2013
 * Does China need democracy to be rich? - Westerners are subject to more economic meddling from the State than our Communist-led cousins are - 11th November 2013
 * London isn’t burning. Don’t fetch the engines - Dramatic reductions in the number of fire incidents across Britain mean we can afford a smaller fire brigade - 4th November 2013
 * We won’t be blown away by St Jude’s storm - Technology, trade and globalisation mean that the weather can wreak less damage than ever before - 28th October 2013
 * With nuclear power, small is beautiful - Instead of turning to China for huge projects such as Hinkley Point, we could mass-produce reactors - 21st October 2013
 * Are those white elephants in the water? - Pride in our offshore wind farms is wildly misplaced. They are costlier than all other forms of energy - 14th October 2013
 * Don’t stub out this great way to quit smoking - E-cigarettes will save lives if we keep them out of the itching regulatory hands of the health nannies - 10th October 2013
 * Progress won’t end if chips stop shrinking - Silicon technology will no longer get smaller and cheaper. Now Man’s ingenuity must take over - 3rd October 2013
 * Global lukewarming need not be catastrophic - There’s a middle way between those who deny climate change is real and those who say it’s disastrous - 28th September 2013
 * Green energy or cheap? Ed can’t have both - It is breathtaking hypocrisy for the architect of expensive renewables to call for a price freeze - 26th September 2013
 * Lighten up, Sir David. Our wildlife is safe - Attenborough’s fears are unfounded. Population levels will drop and more land will revert to nature - 12th September 2013
 * Man who cleared up a question of pollution - The economist Ronald Coase showed how free markets help the environment - 5th September 2013
 * Why I’m torn between freedom and security - Was the detention of David Miranda an assault on the press or a necessary protection? It’s impossible to decide - 21st August 2013
 * Let’s shatter these five myths about fracking - Shale gas does not cause earthquakes, pollute water or use toxic chemicals. Wind turbines do far more damage - 15th August 2013
 * GM crops don’t kill kids. Opposing them does - ‘Golden rice’ prevents the vitamin A deficiency that kills millions every year. Yet Greenpeace is blocking it - 1st August 2013
 * Don’t give Alan Turing a pardon. Give him a plinth - As well as being a codebreaking war hero, he was one of our greatest scientists. We must celebrate his achievements - 18th July 2013
 * There’s no cure to the health spending paradox - At the same time as it gets cheaper to do IVF or cataracts, our constant innovations will inevitably push up budgets - 11th July 2013
 * The dash for shale oil will shake the world - . . . but not because of earthquakes: the enormous riches being discovered could slash oil prices across the globe - 3rd July 2013
 * Cancer fights hard. We must be bold to beat it - We know prevention is easier than cure. But for all our scientific breakthroughs, progress is disappointingly slow - 27th June
 * Culling badgers is good. Even for the badgers - TB is not the only problem. The explosion in their numbers is also destroying the smaller animals they feed on - 13th June
 * So who will lobby for the poor old taxpayer? - The real scandal is politicians putting the interests of narrow (often undeserving) groups before those who foot the bill - 6th June
 * Earth to Met Office: check your climate facts - The latest science suggests that our policy on global warming is hopelessly misguided - 20th May
 * Don’t write off Bitcoins as just another bubble - Demand for the virtual currency proves people don’t trust governments with their money - 19th April
 * Weird weather? That’s the pub bore forecast - Forget the anecdotes and face the facts: weather always fluctuates. Arctic springs and angry summers are not oddities - 27th March
 * ‘Burnable ice’ will set the energy world on fire - Even the most die-hard environmentalists should not argue against this new power source - 15th March
 * World outlook: rosy. Europe outlook: awful - Weighed down by bureaucracy and suspicion of science, we seem determined to turn relative into absolute decline - 2nd January



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