Categories for Data and Modelling

Let’s Apply Covid Scepticism to Climate Change

From fake alarmism to flawed models, the two ‘crises’ of Covid and climate change have much in common, writes former UN Assistant Secretary-General Ramesh Thakur.

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Negative Vaccine Effectiveness: The ‘Fact Checks’ Were Wrong Last Autumn and They’re Even More Wrong Now

Those of us who pointed out last September that the vaccinated had higher infection rates than the unvaccinated were blasted with 'fact checks'. But the fact checks were wrong then, and they're even more wrong now.

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WHO Estimates of India’s Covid Deaths Are Highly Suspect

The WHO claims India has missed 90% of its Covid deaths, attributing to the country nearly 5 million deaths, almost a third of the world total and 10 times the official count of 481,486. That is simply not credible.

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The Worrying Signals Hidden in the UKHSA Data on Vaccination During Pregnancy

The UKHSA publishes data on vaccination during pregnancy which on the surface appear reassuring. However, a closer look reveals some troubling signals.

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Vaccinated Have Up To SIX Times the Infection Rate of Unvaccinated, New Zealand Government Data Show

Data from New Zealand show the vaccinated are up to six times more likely to be infected than the unvaccinated, casting further doubt on the efficacy of the vaccines.

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UKHSA Publishes Final Vaccine Data Report – as Vaccine Effectiveness Against Hospitalisation in Over-80s Heads to Zero

The UKHSA's final vaccine report with data by vaccine status is out, and it shows vaccine effectiveness against hospitalisation in the over-80s headed to zero. Is the dire data the real reason it's been pulled?

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Vaccine Effectiveness Heads Towards Minus-400% as Death Rate Among Vaccinated Approaches Same as Unvaccinated, UKHSA Data Show

Vaccine effectiveness against infection continues to plummet towards minus-400% with no sign of a slowdown, as the Covid death rate of the vaccinated approaches the same as the unvaccinated.

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Convergence in Excess Mortality in Western Europe

Pandemic death tolls in Western Europe have been converging over the last two years. This suggests that, regardless of which policies you impose, a certain number of Covid deaths are more-or-less unavoidable.

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Counting the Dead

How many have died of COVID-19? Counting deaths is straightforward when a pathogen kills the healthy, as with ebola or plague. It’s not so easy when a pathogen primarily endangers the frail.

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Vaccine Effectiveness Hits as Low as Minus 300% – as UKHSA Announces it Will No Longer Publish the Data

Worrying trends continue in the latest vaccine data from UKHSA, including vaccine effectiveness as low as minus 300%. Disappointingly, but perhaps inevitably, UKHSA has announced it will no longer be publishing them.

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