For centuries on end, the people grounded in common sense have been an annoyance to the “educated folks.” STORY AT-A-GLANCE A recent “study” suggests that vaccine skeptics are, ummm, likely to struggle with problem-solving and to demonstrate absolutist thinking, political conservatism, and xenophobia. Ironically, blaming the “village yokels” and “tradition defenders” has been a staple…

Dr. Wilson Chin, a 34-year-old Hong Kong-born physician, died on Dec. 24, 2022, on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Chin’s sudden death stirred comments on both mainstream and social media. Chin’s boss, Deon Raju, president of Pacific Pines MedCentres, confirmed Chin’s death to the Gold Coast Bulletin, a local newspaper in Australia. However, Raju did…

A British organisation representing those injured by COVID-19 vaccines has expressed concerns that legitimate discussion on social media could be threatened after a BBC investigation triggered Facebook into removing support groups. On Friday, the BBC reported that in response to one of its stories, Facebook’s parent company, Meta, had removed several vaccine injury support groups, including…

SYDNEY, Australia—The participation of Novak Djokovic, men’s tennis World No. 1, in the Australian Open could be decided Sunday afternoon, a panel of three federal judges have said as they adjourned to decide whether to reinstate Djokovic’s Australian visa after almost five hours of hearing arguments. Chief Justice James Allsop said that the court hoped to deliver…

SYDNEY, Australia—The participation of Novak Djokovic, men’s tennis World No. 1, in the Australian Open could be decided Sunday afternoon, a panel of three federal judges have said as they adjourned to decide whether to reinstate Djokovic’s Australian visa after almost five hours of hearing arguments. Chief Justice James Allsop said that the court hoped to deliver…

The Australian government has said that while Novak Djokovic poses a “negligible” risk of spreading COVID-19, his mere presence could stoke “anti-vaccination sentiment,” court documents reveal. Djokovic’s lawyers, meanwhile, have argued that the case against the tennis star was “illogical” and that Immigration Minister Alex Hawke’s reasoning was affected by the jurisdictional error identified last…

A federal judge just issued a court order and officially blocked the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for health care workers, saying the mandate was a gross overreach of the agency’s authority. Meanwhile, the official deadline for all active-duty U.S. Marines to be fully vaccinated just passed. However, according to newly released government data, there are…

Commentary As someone who has been taught to measure my words, I have had enough of the prime minister’s attempt to brand people who object to the COVID vaccines as “anti-vaxxers.” He made the most of it, of course, during the recent election campaign, when he told us that he was not going to let…

The Victorian branch of the Australian Medical Association (AMA) has backtracked on comments made by its president, Dr. Roderick McRae, that people he deemed “COVID-19 deniers” and “anti-vaxxers” should opt out of taxpayer-funded health care. In comments published in The Guardian, McRae said, “A whole lot of these people are passionate disbelievers that the virus…