What Kind of ‘Experts’ Didn’t Foresee This Lockdown Devastation?
What kind of 'expertise' is it that focuses on one hazard to the exclusion of all others, and fails to foresee the numerous harms that the supposed 'solution' will cause?
What kind of 'expertise' is it that focuses on one hazard to the exclusion of all others, and fails to foresee the numerous harms that the supposed 'solution' will cause?
Boris Johnson has apologised for attending a social gathering at No 10 during the U.K.'s first lockdown, saying he believed implicitly it was a work event. Will it be enough to save him?
The World Bank estimates there will 21 million fewer people in extreme poverty this year, compared to 2020. Why? One reason, the World Bank suggests, is that "the appetite for lockdowns has been smaller”.
A new paper claims that lockdowns do not cause more health harms than they prevent. But the harmful long-term effects of lockdown are yet to be quantified, so the authors have little basis for their conclusion.
The Question Everything Lockdown Summit took place in London yesterday and featured contributions from many of those who have featured prominently on this site over the past year, not least Toby and Dr Will Jones.
Toby and Will will be joining experts from HART and others including Professor Karol Sikora and Dr Clare Craig at the Question Everything lockdown summit in London on Saturday July 17th. Register now.
A new study from leading U.S. think tank National Bureau of Economic Research has shown (once again) that lockdown policies produced no discernible reduction of the pandemic death toll. If anything, they increased it.
Matt Hancock has told young people to get vaccinated because long Covid could "ruin your life". However, new research shows the symptoms of long Covid in teens are no less common in those who have not had the virus.
The authors of The Great Barrington Declaration have teamed up with several other academics, including Carl Heneghan, to launch Collateral Global, which aims to document the far-reaching impacts of lockdowns.
A Lockdown Sceptics reader writes to tell us about the depressing new "normal" in his workplace. Colleagues were sent home halfway through the day if they hadn't had a test, even if they'd recently recovered from Covid.
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