David Paton

David Paton is a Professor of Industrial Economics at Nottingham University Business School.

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Assisted Dying amendments ignore major flaws in Bill There will be little time for scrutiny after a second reading

23 Nov 2024

Scientific American’s Kamala Harris endorsement damages trust in science Academic publications should not be backing presidential candidates

18 Sep 2024

Covid-style controls against disorder are not the answer Civil rights risk being cast aside by lawmakers with little scrutiny

05 Aug 2024

Has Patrick Vallance learnt from his Covid mistakes? Labour's new science minister may not be up to the task

07 Jul 2024

New Covid variant, same media scare stories A new strain of the virus has led to a resurgence in catastrophising headlines

21 May 2024

Do two million Brits really have long Covid? New ONS research plays down the impact of lockdowns

10 May 2024

Weaponising ‘long Covid’ damaged public trust A new study reveals the phenomenon is no different from flu symptoms

15 Mar 2024

Was vaccinating children against Covid a mistake? A new paper suggests that the rollout led to more adolescent hospitalisations

18 Jan 2024

What QALYs reveal about lockdowns Rishi Sunak has brought attention to a key measure of pandemic management

12 Dec 2023

Covid restrictions on Chinese travellers are a bad idea The underlying idea that politicians can control viruses was never true

31 Dec 2022

Where is the evidence that the ‘tier three strategy’ works? Restrictions come into force today — but the basis for the policy is dubious

14 Oct 2020

Our Covid strategy is based on faulty assumptions When will they start to look at whether these 'interventions' actually work?

06 Oct 2020

Whitty and Vallance are playing a dangerous game The dubious use of statistics by the CMO and CSO will only undermine trust

22 Sep 2020

The evidence for the ‘Rule of 6’ is not promising There is nothing to suggest that it limits the spread of Covid-19

14 Sep 2020

A major Covid milestone that you won’t find on the BBC On 19th August there were zero reported Covid deaths — why is this not front page news?

24 Aug 2020

The Leicester lockdown was not necessary A month after the first "local lockdown", the data suggests it made no difference

06 Aug 2020