Author: Emma Monk

Emma Monk trained as a Molecular Geneticist, before giving that up to be a full time Mum. As with many full time mothers she then filled her time with helping to run toddler groups, preschools, PTAs, sports clubs, and more recently several political campaign groups. Having lived in Surrey, Bath, Cambridge and Bahrain, she is now settled in the New Forest with her family

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Misinformation costs lives, David Warburton. Spread facts, not fiction

Emma Monk

On 8 January, MP for Somerton and Frome David Warburton gave an interview to the Somerset County Gazette containing a great deal of misinformation. Short of a small link to a fact-checking website in the middle of the article, his views were printed uncontested. Is it right for an MP to be given a platform […]

Debunking Covid-19 myths: part 1 – Covid-19 is NOT a hoax!

Emma Monk

Along with thousands of others, I have watched with increasing anger, sadness and frustration as misinformation has been allowed to spread so freely in the last year, not just on social media but across mainstream media outlets too. I have found myself repeatedly engaging with Covid-19 deniers and lockdown sceptics on social media, trying to […]