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Great Barrington Authors Hit Back At Collins and Fauci

In an email obtained via FOI request, the former head of the NIH described the Great Barrington authors as "fringe epidemiologists" and called for a "take down" of the Declaration. Now two of them have hit back.

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Soon to be a Major Motion Picture…

We've conjured up a new conspiracy theory at the Daily Sceptic: What if the U.K. Government engineered Omicron as a safe variant that would cause only mild disease and then confer immunity and released it into the wild?

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We Will Remember You

We're republishing a comment on the Daily Sceptic that appeared on December 31st 2020. Alas, it's still relevant. Here's hoping it won't be in a year's time.

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A Hogmanay Tale From Central Edinburgh

The Daily Sceptic is publishing a semi-autobiographical, satirical short story by a Scottish reader about how one Edinburgh family have been celebrating Hogmanay this year.

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Misreading Mill: On Liberty and Vaccination

We're publishing a guest post on the Daily Sceptic by two professors at King's College London disputing the claim, often made by vaccine enthusiasts, that J.S. Mill would have supported mandatory vaccinations.

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Indian Researchers Find that Natural Immunity Protects Better Against Infection than the AstraZeneca Vaccine

A fourth study has found that natural immunity protects better against infection than the vaccines. Indian researchers estimated the protective effect of natural immunity to be 86%; vaccine effectiveness was only 32%.

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Vaccine Escape Mutations “Will Become a Major Mechanism of Transmission”, Say Researchers

Back in January, Sir Patrick Vallance said, "The more you vaccinate, the more you put evolutionary pressure on the virus." A recent paper argues that mass vaccination has selected for vaccine escape mutations.

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Should We Lower the Voting Age to Six?

We're publishing a guest post on the Daily Sceptic by James Alexander, a politics professor, responding to a recent suggestion that the franchise should be extended to six year-olds. He argues it's not such a bad idea.

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Both Right and Left-Wing Authoritarianism Predict Support for Lockdown

The psychologist Joseph Manson analysed data on a sample of Americans from April of 2020. He found that both right and left-wing authoritarianism predicted support for lockdowns and other restrictions.

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Whistleblowing BBC Journalist Exposes Lockdown Zealotry of Colleagues

A pseudonymous BBC reporter calling himself Charlie Walsham has written a brilliant exposé in the Spectator about the pro-lockdown bias of his colleagues. A must read.

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