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Robert Dingwall notes he never met the late Queen Elizabeth. He did, however, once try to bar Charles’s entry to the Cambridge Union Debating Society…
ISA may not have any great love for the richer countries of the world, argues Robert Dingwall, but its president should be capable of telling the difference between mutual aid among sovereign nations and a desire to subject other countries to external domination.
The humility of King Canute in the face of nature is worth recalling as a check on the enthusiasm for zero-infection. It is a fine-sounding slogan but do we really want to live in a society where everything else is sacrificed to this goal?
Robert Dingwall recalls the observations of Edward Shils and Michael Young regarding to coronation of Queen Elizabeth II to offer an insight in the Platinum Jubilee.
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 […]
