On Monday, UKHSA head Jenny Harries told MPs the agency had supplied detailed deaths data to vaccine companies but couldn't release it to the public for 'commercial sensitivity reasons'. Something to hide?
Once a tyrant, always a tyrant and those people who during Covid used power cruelly are starting to make a resurgence. The latest is a call to withhold child benefit from those who don't vaccinate their children.
The Naked Emperor flags a recent Twitter spat between statistician Nate Silver and psychologist Sander van der Linden, over the merits of countering misinformation by exposing people to fake news in controlled doses.
In the 1970s, John B. Calhoun conducted a series of experiments on mice that found even in a utopia with plenty of room, at a certain point the mice just gave up reproducing and died out.
The Naked Emperor isn't impressed by Harriet Walker's piece in the Times on 'lockdown nostalgia'. For the laptop classes, lockdown may have been a bit of a lark. For most ordinary people, it was misery.
In a new ONS report on vaccine effectiveness, the statistics agency finds that even after adjustments the vaccinated die of non-Covid 50% less than the unvaccinated and admits this means its estimates are unreliable.
Births in England fell by 11.9% in 2022 compared to 2021, new official data from the UKHSA show. Worryingly, this coincides with the vaccine rollout.
