Day: 9 September 2021

A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus — and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.

There's a terrific piece in the Tablet by John Ioannidis, Professor of Medicine at Stanford, about what has gone wrong in the scientific community in the past 18 months. Why did scepticism lose out to authoritarianism?

We're publishing an original essay on the Daily Sceptic by a retired lawyer about President Eisenhower's prescient Presidential Address 60 years ago when he warned about the subversion of democracy by commercial interests.

Ministers are said to be having second thoughts about vaccine passports, especially following firm criticism of their plans from Tory MPs. Perhaps the rhetoric was always empty, intended only to increase vaccine uptake.

Why did so many liberal journalists repeat the fake news about gunshot victims in Oklahoma being unable to get treated because ER doctors were too busy dealing with patients who'd overdosed on ivermectin?

by Cephas Alain In his final speech from the White House, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned that an arms race would take resources from other areas – such as building schools and hospitals. As interest has increased in the lab leak hypothesis for the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic it has cast the spotlight upon the behaviours of parts of the scientific community, including the role of peer review, conflicts of interest and the ownership and funding of professional journals. In turn, this can all be considered within national and international political and organisational contexts. ‘Big Pharma’ is also under scrutiny. This article seeks to explain the general nature of the potential threat posed by Big Pharma. It is not a new story. Indeed, it can be usefully discussed with the help of a 60 year-old Presidential address. On September 5th, 2021, LBC radio host and commentator Maajid Nawaz drew an analogy from Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Farewell Address to the nation as 34th President of the United States on January 17th, 1961. Maajid Nawaz suggested that the threat to democratic society described by President Eisenhower of the ‘Military-Industrial Complex’ has, at least to some degree, been supplanted by a ‘Big Pharma Industrial Complex’. He also suggested that the behaviours of governments in pursuing Covid related policies, such as the vaccination of ...

England's NHS waiting list has risen to a new high of 5.6 million, with almost 300,000 people waiting for more than 52 weeks to start treatment.

Kenan Malik has attacked Lionel Shriver for a recent Spectator column arguing that "white Britons" should be concerned about becoming a minority in the U.K. Dr. Will Jones comes to her defence in the Daily Sceptic.

Risk of exposure to COVID-19 when flying between New York and London after all passengers have tested negative result 72 hours in advance is less than one in a million, a new study from Delta Airlines shows.

Frontline NHS workers will be barred from seeing patients or could lose their jobs if they don't get vaccinated against Covid, according to reports, with a consultation on mandatory vaccination due to be published today.