News Round-Up
5 July 2025
by Toby Young
The vaccination of pregnant women in Israel was associated with two huge spikes in neonatal deaths, newly released data from a major health insurer show.
A member of the committee that first came up with a weekly alcohol limit admitted afterwards that they couldn’t find any scientific evidence to justify the limit and had just “plucked the figure out of the air”.
The Daily Mail recently published a story claiming the world could face a mass extinction of plants and animals within less than 80 years owing to climate change, but experts have dismissed the idea as "junk science".
Read six accounts of people who suffered life-changing injury or death confirmed or suspected to be caused by the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Lancet Editor Richard Horton has said: "We know that the system of peer review is biased, unjust, unaccountable, usually ignorant and frequently wrong." And that was before Covid came along.
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the virus and the vaccines, the ‘climate emergency’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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