The Daily Sceptic

The Daily Sceptic
Home page in January 2023
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Founder(s)Toby Young
URLdailysceptic.org
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The Daily Sceptic is a blog created by British commentator Toby Young. It has published misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines[9] and engaged in climate change denial.[16]

  1. ^ "Teen deaths up since last year, but no evidence vaccines responsible". Full Fact. 11 October 2021. Archived from the original on 29 December 2022. Retrieved 29 December 2022. The Daily Sceptic article states that the increased number of deaths corresponded with the timing of the roll out of Covid-19 vaccinations among this age group and asks if this is "real-world evidence that over the summer the vaccines killed nine times as many 15-19 year-olds as Covid did?" ... There is also no evidence that this is caused by Covid-19 vaccines.
  2. ^ Pallavi, Sethi (25 November 2021). "Misleading: COVID-19 vaccines don't work because most people in U.K. hospitals with the virus are vaccinated". Logically. Archived from the original on 25 June 2024. Retrieved 12 January 2023. The Daily Sceptic, a website that often propagates COVID-19 misinformation, has published a misleading article regarding vaccine effectiveness.
  3. ^ "The COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective; claim that they have caused an "international medical crisis" is baseless". Health Feedback. 19 September 2022. Archived from the original on 1 March 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2022. Outlets like One American News Network (OAN) and Daily Sceptic ... reported on the declaration. Neither outlet acknowledged that the claims made in the declaration were previously fact-checked and found to be inaccurate, unsupported or misleading.
  4. ^ "Fact Check-Vaccine-effectiveness study does not show 'negative immunity' or harm to the immune system". Reuters. 19 September 2022. Archived from the original on 30 December 2022. Retrieved 30 December 2022. Social media users are sharing an online article that claims the "COVID vaccine destroys natural immunity" and creates "negative immunity" based on misinterpretation of a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). The misleading headline and link to an article published by the Daily Sceptic has been viewed more than 20,000 times on Facebook ... and has been shared more than 11,000 times on Twitter.
  5. ^ Payne, Ed (29 September 2022). "Fact Check: Oxford Study Does NOT Say COVID Vaccination Increases Infection Risk by 44% -- Figure Is From Study Subsection Only". Lead Stories. Archived from the original on 29 December 2022. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
  6. ^ Gorski, David (10 October 2022). "The State of Florida spreads antivaccine disinformation disguised as an epidemiological "study"". Science-Based Medicine. Archived from the original on 11 April 2023. Retrieved 7 February 2023. It's not surprising that the usual suspects are amplifying this "study" as slam-dunk evidence that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous and do more harm than good. I surveyed some of the usual suspects, and here's just a little of what I found: ... The Daily Sceptic (a denialist website): Florida Recommends Against mRNA Vaccination for Males Aged 18-39 Due to 84% Increase in Heart Death Risk
  7. ^ "No, a German "autopsy report" didn't show COVID-19 vaccines as "likely" cause of sudden deaths". Health Feedback. 13 December 2022. Archived from the original on 29 December 2022. Retrieved 29 December 2022. An article written by Will Jones for the website The Daily Sceptic, promoting this claim, also went viral through social media posts... Jones, who holds a PhD in political philosophy, asserted that the study meant it was now a "firmly established" fact that COVID-19 vaccines are responsible for sudden deaths. ... However, experts who weren't involved in the study found that such an interpretation isn't substantiated by the work actually done in the study.
  8. ^ Jaramillo, Catalina (21 December 2022). "Autopsy Study Doesn't Show COVID-19 Vaccines Are Unsafe". FactCheck.org. Archived from the original on 30 December 2022. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
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  10. ^ "Warming of Earth's surface and oceans continues apace, contrary to claims in blog". Climate Feedback. 9 June 2022. Archived from the original on 30 December 2022. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
  11. ^ "Letter stating there is "no climate emergency" repeats inaccurate claims about climate science". Climate Feedback. 24 August 2022. Archived from the original on 29 December 2022. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
  12. ^ Parry, Roland Lloyd (6 October 2022). "Article misrepresents studies on Greenland climate". Agence France-Presse. Archived from the original on 29 December 2022. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
  13. ^ "Fact Check-Study on Greenland warming does not contradict human-driven climate change". Reuters. 11 October 2022. Archived from the original on 7 February 2023. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  14. ^ Cite error: The named reference Simmons-2023 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  15. ^ Kristensen, Nikolaj (11 May 2023). "Mapping of the seabed does not prove underwater volcanoes to be the cause of human-made global warming". Logically. Archived from the original on 11 May 2023. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
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