Here is the story of today's Office for National Statistics (ONS) mortality statistics in a single chart. The worst week for UK mortality (all causes) since records began. The blue area shows the minimum and maximum mortality each week since 2010. The red line shows you this year so far.

We age discriminate when it comes to voting age, but here's why it's wrong to age discriminate when allocating life-saving healthcare resources during a pandemic. Two academics, DianaEPopescu1 and Alexandru Marcoci, explain. bit.ly/3anfVAI

Post-truth is misplaced distrust in testimony, not indifference to facts, Diana Popescu-Sarry (Diana Popescu) argues in @Polstudies. Read OPEN ACCESS here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… @SAGECQPolitics Political StudiesAssoc #polsci #antivaxxer #politicaltrust #bridgingrhetoric

Scientific bias: Anti-salt scientists primarily cite other anti-salt scientists & vice versa ow.ly/S7gs3010oL3

Preparing Y10s for the aftermath of #Brexit x.com/HFexperience/s…

A sort of "What do we want? EU! When do we want it! NOW!" #marchforeurope #brexit

Statement on the outcome of the referendum in the United Kingdom ec.europa.eu/programmes/hor… #UKref

WATCH LIVE: Sir John Chilcot to make statement on findings of long-awaited #ChilcotReport aje.io/63d9

Sci & Tech Committee @CommonsSTC asking for submissions on research post-#Brexit The Royal Society parliament.uk/business/commi…

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