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Vax vexation

It would be hard to find a more impressive-sounding organisation than the Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge.

It publishes the Public Health Policy Journal, which has a list of distinguished board members. There are neurosurgeons and university professors, experts in paediatrics and ophthalmology: a lot of impressive titles.

If you were a respected academic, wouldn’t you want to be in that company? Certainly, Dr Simon Thornley of the University of Auckland must have thought so.

Thornley, a senior lecturer in epidemiology, jointly authored a controversial paper that was published by the journal as peer reviewed. It called for withdrawing the Covid vaccine roll-out

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