News Round-Up
27 October 2024
by Will Jones
“Why Did Our Parked Electric Car Explode?”
26 October 2024
by Will Jones
The Daily Sceptic's prediction for 2024? Magic Stones. There's no evidence they ward off evil spirits, but the authorities won't care. Carrying them will become compulsory and all criticism dismissed as ‘misinformation'.
Boris Johnson told the Covid Inquiry he hesitated to trust the apocalyptic predictions of Neil Ferguson's models because of his poor record from previous viruses. He was right to do so, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
Too many experts are too quick to override doubts and forge ahead with radical solutions based on over-confident models, says Dr Andrew Bamji. On Covid and climate, a strong dose of humility is in order.
The precautionary principle originally counselled against untested interventions, but more recently elites have inverted it to impose evidence-free measures on a terrified public, arguing "better safe than sorry".
Contrary to how it has been used in the Covid pandemic, the 'precautionary principle' has never encouraged the introduction of innovations, programmes or interventions on the basis that they just might do some good.
As SAGE makes the case for new restrictions and even the cancellation of Christmas, Fraser Nelson probes SAGE modeller Graham Medley on Twitter on why SAGE's models are so often pessimistic and wrong.
The Principle trial at Oxford University has selected Ivermectin for inclusion in its study of repurposed drugs for COVID-19, meaning 14 months after its potential was discovered the drug might finally be approved.
Critics of the AstraZeneca panic in Europe have rightly blamed the rigid application of the 'precautionary principle'. But these very same critics have applied exactly the same principle to justifying the lockdowns.
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