News Round-Up
15 April 2025
by Toby Young
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The Covid vaccines saved 20m lives. That's the Lancet figure that gets quoted uncritically by media and politicians. But it's easy to show it's junk, says Nick Rendell. The projections of Covid deaths are off the scale!
Dr Andrew Bamji, a retired Consultant Rheumatologist and former President of the British Society for Rheumatology, reviews Norman Fenton and Martin Neil's Fighting Goliath, saying what he thinks they get right and wrong.
In an article this week the BBC claims that Covid vaccines saved 120,000 UK lives in 2021. But in fact the latest official estimate is 10 times lower than this, says Prof David Paton. Why is the BBC using outdated figures?
Hundreds of doctors and scientists from around the world have signed an accord calling for the suspension and investigation of mRNA Covid vaccines due to serious concerns about their safety and efficacy.
Media figures continue to claim that Covid vaccines saved 20 million lives. But it's just modelling, says Nick Rendell – and it's contradicted by the data, which show the unvaccinated didn't die at a greater rate.
When the U.K. Covid Inquiry postponed its vaccine module until January 2025, a group of concerned doctors and scientists decided that the truth couldn't wait. Their People's Vaccine Inquiry launches today.
Having more vaccine doses leads to more Covid infections, a major study has found: up 46% with two doses, 95% with three doses and 151% with more than three. A new approach to Covid is needed, say the authors.
Watch a Government Minister admit to Dan Hannan that the Covid vaccines did not prevent transmission, prompting Hannan to ask: "So why the hell did we force them on to young people? Why did we insist on vaccine passports?"
A new study from the Czech Republic confirms that Covid vaccines have around zero efficacy against death, with any apparent effect an illusion due to biases in the data, says epidemiologist Prof Eyal Shahar.
The Lancet's analysis implies that without the Covid vaccines global deaths in 2021 would have been 40% higher than normal – a higher mortality rate than World War Two or the great famine of China. This is absurd.
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