More Than Half of Brits Think Pandemic Is Still Ongoing
17 May 2023
by Noah Carl
An Israeli Government survey showed that side-effects of the Pfizer vaccine hospitalised people hundreds of times more often than is 'safe' – but the results were downplayed, says Dr. Eyal Shahar.
In a recent poll, only 36% of British Conservatives said the pandemic is over. By contrast, 75% of U.S. Republicans say the same. What explains this gap? Republicans get their news from less "alarmist" outlets.
More than 40 academics have intervened in support of a planned appearance at Oxford by Prof. Kathleen Stock, after students have tried to cancel her talk because she disputes that 'transwomen are women'.
Businessman and entrepreneur Luke Johnson says one of the biggest costs of the lockdowns was a surge in loneliness as communities fragmented, workplaces emptied and clubs and associations collapsed.
The Guardian reports a "huge" rise in hurty feelings of climate scientists on Twitter since Elon Musk took over. The "vicious abuse" includes: "Any luck finding the climate crisis yet?"
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.
On the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are the Leftist meltdown over the National Conservatism conference, the U.K. surrendering to China and Trump projecting masculine power in his CNN 'Town Hall'.
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