News Round-Up
8 May 2024
AstraZeneca Withdrawing Covid Vaccine Worldwide
8 May 2024
by Will Jones
How to End Workplace Woke Groupthink
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Facebook is censoring unfavourable data on the vaccines by relying on paper-thin 'fact checks' that don't withstand scrutiny – such as this one about the dire Scottish vaccine data.
The BBC has used some of its taxpayer funding to 'reality check' Joe Rogan's Covid 'misinformation', claiming some episodes of the popular podcast have featured "false and misleading claims". Let's see.
Despite the very limited extent of the wrinklies' boycott of Spotify over Joe Rogan's vaccine 'misinformation', Rogan has apologised for "pissing off" Spotify – after Spotify imposed new warnings on pandemic content.
Unadjusted vaccine effectiveness against infection is negative against Omicron for the triple-jabbed over-30s, new UKHSA data show, meaning infection rates per 100,000 are higher in the triple vaccinated.
Dr Michael Mosley has written a piece in the Mail criticising those like Novak Djokovic who say they are protected by antibodies from previous infection, claiming the vaccines are better. Here's what he gets wrong.
The BBC has published another of its 'reality checks', this time targeting Dr Steve James, who challenged Sajid Javid on the science behind the vaccine mandate. But it needs a fact check of its own.
Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has confirmed that the Government's disinformation unit is "working", after suggestions from Labour that the counter disinformation policy was scrapped in the summer.
The UK Statistics Authority has written to the ONS to censure it for a recent report claiming that the risk of death with Covid was "32 times greater in unvaccinated people than in fully vaccinated individuals".
Former senior ONS employee James Wells has reported his old employer to the UK Statistics Authority for making the misleading claim in a new report that the "risk of death is 32 times higher in the unvaccinated".
The UKHSA caves to pressure and removes the chart showing sky-high infection rates in the vaccinated. Plus it states VE should not be estimated from its data. Is that because VE is now as low as minus-132%?
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