News Round-Up
3 May 2025
by Toby Young
Two new analyses of Covid test swabs find dangerous levels of aluminium, silicon and ethylene oxide, raising questions again about how safe they are and how effectively they are being regulated.
Why do the LFT bristles break away so easily, and why are they tube-like? Prof Anthony Brookes and Dr Kees Straatman have taken a closer look with a laser microscope and sent the images to the Daily Sceptic.
We're publishing an original article to Lockdown Sceptics today by Dr Sinéad Murphy, a Research Associate in Philosophy at Newcastle University, about the descent into unreason prompted by an over-reliance on scientific advice.
The FDA says the performance of the Innova-manufactured lateral flow test – the one in use across Britain, including in schools – has not been proven to be reliable and, for that reason, should be thrown in the bin.
New data from the Department of Health and Social Care has confirmed that more false positive results were produced by LFD tests than true positives in the first two weeks of school testing.
A reader of Lockdown Sceptics decided to test some familiar household objects for COVID-19. You'll be amazed by what came up positive.
Biostatistics Professor Jon Deeks has criticised the Government's mass Covid testing plan as a waste of "time and money", highlighting that in some areas only one positive case would be found after 10,000 tests.
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