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A tale of covid-era censorship from the front lines of economics
In March 2024, the journal Australian Economic Papers published our paper, “Hiding the Elephant: The tragedy of Covid policy and…
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(RE)Constructing the missing COVID-19 UK impact assessment for 2020/21
This document considers, in the widest sense, all the costs and benefits to the United Kingdom of the proposed policy.
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Censorship is unacceptable in democracies - It also disqualifies the “We didn’t know” argument
I am a historian of communism and post-communism by trade
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The UK Covid Inquiry should examine the politics of fear
Recently, the UK Covid Inquiry heard testimony that the BBC consistently misrepresented Covid risk in order to boost public support for lockdown.
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Is it now time to formalise the processes for scientific advice in emergencies?
In mid 2020, at the height of the pandemic, the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee conducted an enquiry into the Science of COVID-19.
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Collateral effects of lockdown to combat the COVID-19-pandemic in Austria
Andreas Sönnichsen, MD Download full article here Background In March 2020 the Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz proclaimed that within weeks…
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Vaccine Mandates: New Questions
Allyson Pollock, Carl Heneghan, and Paula Byrne discuss key policy questions around vaccine mandates
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Why are we the academic oddballs?
Professors Ellen Townsend and Paul Dolan reflect on how they became ‘outlier voices’ during the pandemic.
