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News Round-Up
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus – and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.
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Trudeau Invokes Emergency Powers to Freeze Freedom Convoy Protesters’ Bank Accounts
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau has invoked the Emergencies Act to crack down on Freedom Convoy protests, which includes empowering banks to freeze the personal accounts of protestors.
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White Britons More Likely to Be Infected in Delta Wave Than Black Britons Despite Higher Vaccination Rates, ONS Data Show
White Britons were more likely than black Britons to be infected with Covid during the Delta wave in 2021 despite having significantly higher vaccination rates, ONS analysis shows.
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What are We to Make of the Research Finding that Women Think Men Wearing Facemasks are More Attractive?
In an original Valentine's Day piece for the Daily Sceptic, philosopher Dr. Sinéad Murphy puzzles over the research finding that women find men in facemasks more attractive. Depressing news, she thinks.
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Is Long Covid Just Another Example of Post-Freudian Hysteria?
Long Covid joins a long list of syndromes "without clinical explanation", leading to questions of what really lies behind it and to what extent it is actually psychogenic or sociogenic.
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Publisher Retracts 24 Scientific Papers for Being “Nonsensical” – What Happened to Peer Review?
Once more, a 'peer-reviewed' journal has to retract a bunch of papers because they are literally nonsense – generated by a computer algorithm. Why aren't publishers getting on top of this discreditable problem?
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Sea Temperatures at the Great Barrier Reef Haven’t Increased in 150 Years, Newly Uncovered Data Show
A newly-discovered 1871 dataset of sea temperatures across the Great Barrier Reef has been compared to recent measurements and no differences were found. Not surprising, then, that the Great Barrier Reef is thriving.
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News Round-Up
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus – and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.
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The New Zealand Government Needs to Engage With ‘Freedom Camp’ Protesters, Not Send in the Police
The New Zealand Government has said the protest outside Parliament is a police matter. But the police tried and failed to remove it this week as clips of the violence went viral. It needs a political solution.
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Sunday Times Changes Tune on Covid Restrictions
The Sunday Times has done a volte face on lockdown restrictions, now praising Boris for ignoring the warnings about lifting restrictions last year. Has it forgotten its own role in signal boosting those warnings?
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