News Round-Up
4 July 2025
We're publishing another dispatch from our anonymous Hong Kong correspondent on the Daily Sceptic about the catastrophic consequences of the Chinese Communist Party's Zero Covid policy.
Professor Mark Woolhouse, a member of the SAGE modelling team, has written a mea culpa in which he says the Government made a series of catastrophic mistakes in 2020 and the lockdown sceptics were basically right.
HRH the Queen has tested positive for COVID-19, yet in spite of her advanced age she is experiencing nothing more serious than mild, cold-like symptoms.
A surprisingly candid report in the journal Science notes that researchers are reluctant to study vaccine side effects for fear of causing vaccine hesitancy. “Everyone is tiptoeing around it," one researcher said.
Levels of titanium dioxide that "systematically exceeded the acceptable exposure level" have been found in common face masks used for COVID-19, a study in leading journal Nature has found.
Bill Gates and other billionaires have given hundreds of millions of dollars over the last decade to media outlets to fund 'trusted messengers' who are on-message on climate change and, more recently, COVID-19.
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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