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New data from the WHO show that during the pandemic’s first two years, Sweden had half the excess death rate of the UK, Germany or Spain – and a quarter of the excess death rate of many countries in Eastern Europe.
The UK’s Science Media Centre (SMC) is an internationally admired, and occasionally emulated, model for facilitating interactions between the science […]
As we pass two years from the beginnings of the pandemic, many commentators are scrambling to distance themselves from their […]
By popular request, I am posting this as a free-access version of one of the first commentary pieces that I […]
A year ago, we in the UK were approaching Christmas and New Year with quiet optimism as the first COVID […]
Robert Dingwall asks if claims about the effectiveness of face masks in stopping COVID consistent with current standards of research integrity.
Anything may be justified in the name of biosecurity, suggests an alarmed Robert Dingwall. This emotional manipulation spills into the wider worlds of politics, science and, indeed, sociology.
“A leading association of bioethicists has come squarely behind the idea of mandated vaccination. A statement issued by the Association […]
The state of the face mask debate is rather as if Galileo had published his account of the heliocentric universe and then included a paragraph at the end telling the reader to ignore all the evidence because the Church had declared that everything revolved around the Earth.
The dust is settling on the UK House of Commons report, produced jointly by its Select Committees on health and […]
Studies of medicine in China must not neglect Chinese medicine, writes medical sociologist Robert Dingwall..
A troubling turn in the public policy management of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the increasing tendency to justify interventions […]
