Lockdowns represent a radical departure from conventional forms of pandemic management. So where did 'The Science' of lockdown come from? It's a story that involves Italy, the WHO and our old friend Neil Ferguson.
During the spring of 2020, the official advice on masks went from "do not wear one" to "wear one" in a matter of weeks. Why such a sudden change? It may have all started with a chart that went viral on social media.
Many people – including some world leaders – see the vaccines as a way to ensure that nobody ever has to get COVID. But this view is based more on safetyism than on science. And ironically, it’s causing real harm.
There's a terrific piece in the Tablet by John Ioannidis, Professor of Medicine at Stanford, about what has gone wrong in the scientific community in the past 18 months. Why did scepticism lose out to authoritarianism?
In this week's London Calling, James and I rage against vaccine passports, immunising kids, and the absurdity of the Govt's claim that it is 'following the Science'. Every time you think they've reached rock bottom...
We are publishing a guest post on the Daily Sceptic today by a Senior Lecturer in Politics pointing out that when it comes to vaccinating healthy 12-15 year-olds the Govt can no longer claim to be following the science.
Neil Ferguson et al have just published a paper arguing that had the UK adopted Sweden's approach to Covid, our death toll would be twice as high. But the paper is just flat out wrong, from the first sentence onwards.
Lockdown Sceptics is becoming the Daily Sceptic and will focus on a range of policies that are supposedly based on science or data or evidence, but where 'the Science' is being invoked to conceal a political agenda.
We're publishing a short story today by the historian and regular Lockdown Sceptics contributor Guy de la Bédoyère, set in Britain in 2039. Needless to say, the country still hasn't unlocked due to the weekly appearance of 'new variants'.
The Wikipedia page for "COVID-19 misinformation" says the lab leak theory is based on “unfounded speculation and conspiracy theories”. Yet experts are now calling for a new investigation into the origins of COVID-19.
