News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
As the new Covid JN.1 variant spread over the winter, an Imperial College 'expert' predicted a "major surge in infections" and called for masks to return. This prediction, like all the others, did not age well.
Prof Neil Ferguson is denying responsibility for lockdown, telling the Covid Inquiry that scientists only set out evidence for ministers. Yet his infamous March 2020 report stated that lockdown was the only option.
Alex Kriel has dug into the figures produced by the Mayor of London to justify the Ulez expansion and found they predict it will cut air pollution by just 1.5% while taking no account of the harms from loss of income.
Lockdowns were “a global policy failure of gigantic proportions”, driven by Government fear campaigns and "fantasy numbers" from dud models, a top international team of researchers has concluded.
Students at Imperial College have been told to “have a hard conversation“ with family members who deny they have “white privilege” during the Christmas break. Sounds like a good recipe for festive cheer!
Modelling has frequently been used to claim implausible results from Government interventions, not least when the UKHSA claimed the vaccines had prevented 25m infections when there had only been 6m infections in total.
Imperial College London scared the world into locking down with death projections based on fatality estimates that the latest data suggest are up to 20 times higher than the reality.
Lockdown proponents continue to get a free pass in making unwarranted assertions about lockdowns being necessary and effective, despite the evidence clearly showing infections falling ahead of lockdowns being imposed.
A new study from Qatar shows that Omicron infection provides strong protection against reinfection (80%). Those like Imperial's Prof Danny Altmann who have been scaring people by telling them otherwise are wrong.
Software engineer David Kirkwood peers into the murk of Professor Neil Ferguson's code for his COVID-19 model and finds a sprawling, amateurish mess that was never going to produce anything of value.
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