Day: 25 August 2021

The NHS has drawn up plans to start vaccinating 12-year-olds from the first week schools go back in spite of the fact that 12 year-olds have more chance of being struck by lightning than dying of Covid.

We're publishing a critique in the Daily Sceptic of the new paper in Nature by Neil Ferguson et al making the laughable claim that a lockdown in Sweden would have resulted in a two- to four-fold reduction in mortality.

Studying the origins of Covid could soon become "biologically impossible", scientists have warned. Yet at this crucial moment, it appears as though research efforts have stalled.

More than 600,000 young adults picked up smoking during the first lockdown to help cope with the stress and boredom caused by restrictions, according to a new study that also found an increase in problem drinking.

We're publishing a new 'Postcard' on the Daily Sceptic today, this one by a man who's just returned from Poland with his wife and two kids. The archive of dispatches from readers all over the world is a great resource.

Some care home officials are in despair at the fact that unvaccinated carers must be booted out of their jobs later this year. "How can I in all conscience sack someone who has done nothing wrong," asks one.

We're publishing another of Steve Waterson's peerless rants in the Daily Sceptic today. Waterman is the Commercial Editor of the Australian and one of the country's finest columnists. This one's a humdinger.