News Round-Up
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.
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.
Australia is set to stop manufacturing the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine, blaming "negative press" for fears about side effects which mean the jab is "not going to be utilised".
We're publishing a guest post on the Daily Sceptic by a clinical psychologist who is unhappy about the fact that the regulator hasn't followed up his complaint against a member of the Govt's Behavioural Insights Team.
A judge has ruled that New York health care workers can avoid the vaccine mandate on religious grounds, following reports that aborted fetal tissue is being used to develop jabs.
The latest ONS data shows that GDP growth was lower than expected in August, and still lower than pre-lockdown levels. Figures for July have also been revised downwards in a blow to the Treasury.
We're publishing a guest post by Daily Sceptic regular Dr. Sinéad Murphy, an an academic philosopher. She returns to the subject of Joseph, her autistic son, who's missed almost a year-and-a-half of schooling.
The BMJ has published a clumsy and very belated hit piece against the Great Barrington Declaration, which relies on ad hominem, guilt by association and appeals to authority. Read this point-by-point response.
The new parliamentary report on Covid repeats the claim that locking down a week earlier would have saved tens of thousands of lives. This is contradicted by the data which shows infections peaking before lockdown.
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.
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