News Round-Up
26 April 2025
by Toby Young
The BBC is offering white lanyards to its staff who are returning to offices but wish to continue social distancing. Employees have also been asked to say whether they have been vaccinated but can return either way.
Dr Tess Lawrie and Dr Edmund Fordham respond to an abysmal BBC programme which claimed to debunk a landmark study showing the efficacy of Ivermectin in treating Covid, but failed to contact any of the authors.
Professor Robert Dingwall, a member of NERVTAG, appeared on BBC Radio 5 this morning to talk about the Indian variant, vaccines, models, masks and lockdowns. This is about as sceptical as you will get on the BBC.
Sunetra Gupta gave an interview to BBC News last week which may be a now low in the Beeb's one-sided coverage of the lockdown debate. Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff have come to their colleague's defence.
A retired dentist and Lockdown Sceptics contributor has made a list of those questions BBC correspondents and editors should be asking about the Government's management of the pandemic but aren't. It's quite long.
The broadcast media is wrong to focus only on holidays abroad when considering travel restrictions, Lord David Blunkett says. Just as important is the impact on trade.
In its latest "reality check" the BBC takes to task seven of the most frequently shared "false and misleading claims". Unfortunately, it needs some fact checking of its own.
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