By the end of last year, Lithuania's elderly vaccination rate was 32 percentage points higher than Romania's. Yet since the start of the vaccine rollout, the two countries have had similar levels of excess mortality.
A major global survey has found that most people on earth believe their country limited freedoms too much during the pandemic. Disappointingly, Brits were the fifth least likely to say the government went too far.
A study claims the vaccines saved 500,000 lives in the UK up to 8 December 2021. But this isn't plausible. The number of excess deaths in the first year of the pandemic (before vaccines) was only 76,000.
South Korea was the poster child for the 'contain and vaccinate' strategy. However, it now has the same excess mortality as Sweden, and almost all South Korea's deaths occurred after the vaccine rollout.
A study by four economists has found that school closures in the US caused a large decline in math pass rates. This result provides yet more evidence that the switch to remote learning harmed children's education.
Does the virus have a natural origin or did it leak from a lab? Will a new investigation settle the debate? Read our exclusive interview with Matt Ridley, co-author of 'Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19’.
Surveys in Britain show that students have become less supportive of free speech since 2016. But surveys in America show no trend over the same time period. Why the difference between the two countries?
Hitler's invasion of Poland is not a good analogy for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. For one thing, Hitler didn't have nukes. And if you take the analogy to its logical conclusion, we should be declaring war on Russia.
Nature was once the world's most prestigious scientific journal. Yet in the last few years, it has become increasingly woke. The latest example is a bizarre article suggesting fat people contribute to "diversity".
It's time to admit sanctions on Russian energy have backfired. EU inflation is the highest on record, and Russia's oil revenues have risen. What's more, Europe is still buying Russian oil – from India.
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