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The Daily Sceptic is a blog created by British commentator Toby Young. It has published misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines and climate change denial.
Jun 5, 2022 · The Daily Sceptic is a website that publishes articles and newsletters on topics such as lockdowns, vaccines and climate change from a scientific and evidence-based perspective. Learn about their new look, their funding model and how to access their content for free or with a donation.
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PHE has published a series of Covid-19 vaccine surveillance reports this year. In the reportpublished on 9 September, it began to includea detailed breakdown of the vaccination status of Covid cases, hospitalisations and deaths. The Daily Sceptic article used this dataas the basis for some unreliable estimates of vaccine effectiveness. This data ha...
There are essentially two reasons why PHE’s data does not reliably show us the effect of being vaccinated, which PHE’s note does not fully explain. Firstly, in order to know what proportion of unvaccinated people caught Covid, we need to know how many unvaccinated people there are in total, and we don’t. The number of vaccinated people is easier to...
And there is another kind of problem. These two groups of vaccinated and unvaccinated people have been roughly matched by age, but they might not be the same in other ways. And this might affect their chance of catching Covid for reasons that have nothing to do with the effectiveness of the vaccine. For example, if people who have already caught Co...
An estimate of vaccine effectiveness based only on this PHE data is not reliable—but we don’t need to rely on it, because we have other estimates that we can trust instead. Elsewhere, the same PHE report says: “Estimates of vaccine effectiveness range from around 55 to 70% after 1 dose, with little evidence of variation by vaccine or age group. Dat...
The Daily Sceptic falsely claims that a PHE report shows the Covid-19 vaccines have negative effectiveness in the over-40s. Full Fact explains why the report's data is unreliable and the vaccines do work.
Apr 26, 2024 · In a panel discussion about carbon emissions on last Sunday’s episode, Packham referred to Young’s Daily Sceptic blog as the “Daily Septic”. He alleged that the website “is basically put...
Oct 11, 2021 · The Daily Sceptic claimed that Covid-19 vaccines killed nine times as many 15-19 year-olds as Covid did in England and Wales. Full Fact found that 2020 was an unusually low year for teen deaths and there was no evidence of a link with vaccines.
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