David Paton

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

How many lives did Covid vaccines really save?

27 Jul 2025

Five years on, the Guardian is still defending lockdowns

12 Mar 2025

Trump sounds death knell for the World Health Organization

23 Jan 2025

Assisted Dying amendments ignore major flaws in Bill

23 Nov 2024

Scientific American’s Kamala Harris endorsement damages trust in science

18 Sep 2024

Covid-style controls against disorder are not the answer

05 Aug 2024

Has Patrick Vallance learnt from his Covid mistakes?

07 Jul 2024

New Covid variant, same media scare stories

21 May 2024

Do two million Brits really have long Covid?

10 May 2024

Weaponising ‘long Covid’ damaged public trust

15 Mar 2024

Was vaccinating children against Covid a mistake?

18 Jan 2024

What QALYs reveal about lockdowns

12 Dec 2023

Covid restrictions on Chinese travellers are a bad idea

31 Dec 2022

Where is the evidence that the ‘tier three strategy’ works?

14 Oct 2020

Our Covid strategy is based on faulty assumptions

06 Oct 2020

Whitty and Vallance are playing a dangerous game

22 Sep 2020

The evidence for the ‘Rule of 6’ is not promising

14 Sep 2020

A major Covid milestone that you won’t find on the BBC

24 Aug 2020

The Leicester lockdown was not necessary

06 Aug 2020