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Two top Oxford academics accuse Facebook of censorship for branding their article on whether masks work ‘false information’ Two Oxford scientists reviewed new study on the effectiveness of face masks Danmask-19 study was highly anticipated as it was a randomised controlled trial But Facebook put a warning on the link taking viewers to the 694-word article … Read more
Official data is ‘exaggerating’ the risk of Covid-19 and talk of a second wave is ‘misleading’, nearly 500 academics told Boris Johnson in open letter attacking lockdown. The doctors and scientists said the Government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has become ‘disproportionate’ and that mass testing has distorted the risk of the virus. They said … Read more
Gyms ARE Covid-safe: Experts say they pose a low risk of spreading the virus and keeping them open boosts health and wellbeing 487 positive cases were recorded following 62million visits to fitness centres The study collected data from leisure centres in 14 European countries Academics argued their results revealed that gyms should be kept open … Read more
Professor Matt Keeling suggested thousands of lives could be saved if the country goes into a circuit breaker over half term The academic behind a startling study which projected a two-week ‘circuit-breaker’ could save thousands of lives by New Year has today admitted his figures were wildly over-estimated. In the paper, Professor Matt Keeling – from the Scientific … Read more
Coronavirus infections in England are still more than eight times below the devastating levels they reached in the spring and the country’s outbreak is growing slower than it did in the first wave, according to top scientists. Cambridge University researchers, whose estimates feed into No 10’s advisory panel SAGE, believe 47,000 people are currently catching … Read more
A group of scientists and doctors have written to the Prime Minister urging him not to opt for a second lockdown and to stop presenting Covid-19 as a mortal danger. Thirty-two top academics have called on Boris Johnson and his scientific and medical advisers to avoid a knee-jerk reaction to rising cases and hospitalisations. They … Read more
Academics and musicians are facing a backlash over their demands to axe Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory from Last Night of the Proms after they claimed the anthems represent ‘racist imperial propaganda’ that ‘celebrate the British Empire’. Campaigner Inaya Folarin Iman said criticism of either of the songs was ‘absurd,’ amid claims … Read more
Right-wing or pro-Brexit academics are ‘censored’ on British university campuses, report warns A survey found fewer than 20 per cent of academics voted for Right-wing parties In comparison 75 per cent voted Labour, Liberal Democrat or Green from 2017 Paper suggest a ‘structural discriminatory effect’ on Right-leaning academics By Daily Mail Reporter For The Daily … Read more
Elliot Ackerman Saladin Ambar – Rutgers University Martin Amis Anne Applebaum Marie Arana – author Margaret Atwood John Banville Mia Bay – historian Louis Begley – writer Roger Berkowitz – Bard College Paul Berman – writer Sheri Berman – Barnard College Reginald Dwayne Betts – poet Neil Blair, agent David W. Blight – Yale University … Read more
Academics fear they might get mobbed and their career may be at risk if they stand up for the British Empire, an Oxford historian has said. Nigel Biggar, regius professor of moral and pastoral theology at Oxford University’s Christ Church college, said most academics knew little about the country’s imperial past which has come under … Read more