Unvaccinated Brits will be barred from nightclubs and other large venues from September. "Proof of a negative test will not be sufficient," says the Vaccines Minister. Last week, he said this would be "discriminatory".
A new study in the Lancet finds that adverse events are 400% more common in real world patients than in trial participants for a standard blood pressure drug, calling the reliability of all drug trials into question.
BBC News has published an article highlighting "calls" - just one call, actually – for the introduction of wearable symbols showing that the wearer has a weakened immune system and would like to keep a distance.
A recent study determined that only 25 people aged under 18 died of COVID-19 in England up to February of this year. 76% had a serious underlying health condition. The survival rate in this age-group was 99.995%.
We're publishing an original piece on the Daily Sceptic by Freddie Attenborough about the BBC's double standards when it comes to 'misinformation'. It regularly exposes it, but pumps it out with equal regularity.
In March 2021, the BBC reported that one of their investigative teams had, “Been tracking the human toll of coronavirus misinformation”. During this investigation they claimed to have found links to “assaults, arsons and deaths”. Worryingly, experts also told them that, “The potential for indirect harm caused by rumours, conspiracy theories and bad health information could be much worse”. Sounds like an interesting investigation, doesn’t it? Public service output at its finest, you might think. Just the kind of article we’d all like to read. Alas. Not quite. The problem with the BBC is that it simply can’t help itself. Having teed an ostensibly interesting story up in this open, investigatory journalistic type of way, its authors then proceed to devote a good-ish chunk of what follows to that most favourite of all BBC pastimes, namely, implicating Donald Trump in the act of mass murder. As with the butterfly so beloved of chaos theory (you know the one: that little blighter who’s always flapping his wings and causing tsunamis to crash into the coast of Bangladesh) no sooner have the BBC shown us Trump tweeting about the FDA’s preliminary research into hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic against Covid than the magic of non-deterministic linear physics kicks in and people all over Nigeria and Vietnam suddenly start mopping up the old bleach-based products like vacuum cleaners. In the ...
Ministers will announce today that only vulnerable children will be given Covid vaccines at first, but reports have already emerged that all children – vulnerable or not – could be called up by the end of the year.
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about the virus in the past 24 hours – not just in Britain, but around the world.
Lockdown Sceptics is becoming the Daily Sceptic and will focus on a range of policies that are supposedly based on science or data or evidence, but where 'the Science' is being invoked to conceal a political agenda.
It looks increasingly like the peak of the current surge has not yet arrived in England, and the recent slowdowns may have been temporary. However, Scotland holds out hope it may not be too far off.
